Evasion or Insight? Mead on Royce and American Philosophy

VIALE, CLAUDIO MARCELO

COGNITIO

EDUC Editora da PUC-SP

Lugar: San Pablo; Año: 2007 vol. 8 p. 341 - 359

1518-7187

Abstract: This article turns around a neglected issue in the pragmatist literature: the linkage between the philosophies of Josiah Royce and George Herbert Mead. From a systematic point of view, I maintain that a relation of corrective complementarity can be constructed between them that rests on a historical-reconstructive step. The development of this step is the central aim of this work. My fundamental hypotheses on these topics are three: first, that Mead´s and Royce´s works share similar philosophical commitments on significant themes; second, that this is inadvertently concealed by Mead´s analysis of Royce; third, that this analysis works more as an exemplification of Mead´s bifurcated pragmatism than as an accurate description of Royce´s philosophy. Key-words: History of classical pragmatism. Mead. Mead´s bifurcated pragmatism. Practical Philosophy. Regulative Ideals. Royce. Roycean Beloved Community. The Philosophical linkage between Mead and Royce.