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Ep. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On sections of The Problem of Christianity (1913) which establish Royce's concept of a community of interpretation: individuals working together with a sense of shared history and expectation. He claims that such a grouping can be counted as a literal mind and that it solves the problem of human meaning.

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