The conception of God in the later Royce / by Edward A. Jarvis ; with a foreword by Frank M. Oppenheim.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194).

Includes indexes.

I. The early thought of Royce -- Moral theory -- Empirical theism -- Postulates. The right to believe -- Idealism as an hypothesis based on postulates -- Skepticism and the possibility of error -- Common sense and the problem of error -- Solution and conclusion to absolute idealism -- Absolute idealism and the nature of error -- The problem of evil -- The conception of God. Critique -- II. The middle thought of Royce -- Transition to "The world and the individual" -- "The world and the individual": Introduction -- Realism -- Mysticism -- Critical rationalism -- The internal and external meaning of ideas -- The fourth conception of being -- The proof of God's existence -- The one, the many, and the infinite -- The temporal and the eternal -- The moral order and the problem of evil -- Immortality -- The conception of God. Summary -- III. The later theory of community -- Transition to "The problem of Christianity" -- "The problem of Christianity": Introduction -- The moral burden of the individual -- Guilt and atonement -- The beloved community -- The community and the time-process -- THe body and its members -- The nature of interpretation -- The will to interpret -- IV. The later conception of God -- The world of interpretation -- The theoretical and the practical -- Peirce's "neglected argument" -- The conception of God -- Elements in Royce's later conception of God which are similar to the continuous with the earlier conceptions -- ELements in Royce's later conception of God which are different from his earlier conceptions. Summary.