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EPISODE · Nov 23, 2025 · 46 MIN

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

from The Partially Examined Life · host Mark Linsenmayer

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. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion. Sponsors: Have up to $100 matched when you donate to a well-researched charity at givewell.org; pick PODCAST and enter The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast at checkout. Get $45 off Aura's best-selling Carver Mat electronic picture frame at auraframes.com and use promo code PEL at checkout. Interested in Mark's spring Continental Philosophy class? Check partiallyexaminedlife.com/class for the latest.

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