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Chronicles of Idealism Radio
Joshua Noyer
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Readings from some of the classic works of philosophical idealism, along with modern interpretations and ideas on how to apply it to contemporary societal problems.
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The Social Self
May 14 2022
8 mins
The Social Self
Beyond what is called my private self, however, a similar rule holds. I exist in a vital and humane sense only in relation to my friends, my social business, my family, my fellow-workers, my world of other selves. Read Along: https://www.chroniclesofidealism.com/post/the-social-self Royce, Josiah. Essay. In The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, 207–8. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892.
May 14 2022
8 mins
The Morality of the State
"The laws of a nation are therefore on the whole the expression of those objects which are of vital interest to human life, and all the institutions of society are of this nature. Those institutions are, like individual habits, the embodiment of the conclusions reached by society at a given time in regard to the conditions requisite for the fulfilment of the ultimate purpose of organised life, namely, the good, not of this or that individual, but of all the citizens." Read Along: https://www.chroniclesofidealism.com/post/the-morality-of-the-state Watson, John. In The State in Peace and War, 212–216. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1919
May 14 2022
12 mins
Occupational Representation
"The ideological solution misses the one integral law of the Universe; all things tend towards Unity. Whether it be politics, economics, or science, the relations and principles which bind living things together bring the diversity of existence into a functioning system where everything has a place and a purpose." Written by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.chroniclesofidealism.com/post/occupational-representation
May 14 2022
24 mins
Community is a Process
"When we see community as a process, at that moment we recognize that freedom and law must appear together. I integrate opposing tendencies in my own nature and the result is freedom, power, law. To express the personality I am creating, to live the authority I am creating, is to be free. From biology, social psychology, all along the line, we learn one lesson: that man is rising into consciousness of self as freedom in the forms of law. Law is the entelechy of freedom. The forms of government, of industry, must express this psychological truth." https://www.chroniclesofidealism.com/post/community-is-a-process Follett, M. P. “Community Is a Process.” The Philosophical Review 28, no. 6 (1919): 576. https://doi.org/10.2307/2178307
May 14 2022
32 mins
Novum Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
If any philosophy were to be singled out as on trial in this war, it would rather seem to be a ruthless materialism, which had found expression in Realpolitik, and adopted an elastic pragmatic interpretation of the true and the good. Read Along: https://www.chroniclesofidealism.com/post/novum-itinerarium-mentis-in-deum Bakewell, Charles M. “Novum Itinerarium MENTIS in Deum.” The Philosophical Review 25, no. 3 (1916): 255
May 13 2022
29 mins
The Sphere of the State
"Civil society is man's natural state, for every man is dependent on his fellow-men. All men are regulated by, and owe their freedom to one law, the great law — “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." This law is, in fact, the vital force of the political organism, the State. The State thus becomes the giver of all our rights; our civilization; our exalted condition which men individually never would have been able to attain; and our ability to wage war with the inabilities of our "natural" condition, to subdue nature, to redress natural defects and inequalities." Read Along: https://www.chroniclesofidealism.com/post/the-sphere-of-the-state Wills, Frederick M. “The Sphere of the State.” The Nationalist II, no. 5 (April 1890): 155-162 https://archive.org/details/TheNationalist-Volume2-1890/page/n217/mode/2up.
May 13 2022
23 mins
Likeness and Difference
"Every student of these problems knows that likeness and difference are two aspects of the world that simply cannot be sundered even by the utmost efforts of abstraction. In a sense, any two objects that you recognize as real, or as possible, have points of resemblance. In a sense, also, any two objects, however nearly alike, have differences." https://www.chroniclesofidealism.com/post/likeness-and-difference Royce, Josiah. Essay. In The World and the Individual, 46–53. 2nd. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.
May 13 2022
15 mins
From Tradition to Innovation and Everything in Between
"If, instead of viewing the phenomena of tradition and innovation through the lenses of opposing sides, we view them as functional sides of a single whole, we can begin to see how integral and necessary they are to each other." Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
May 9 2022
24 mins
The Moral and Legal Aspects of Labor
"It is again not in the interests of a community to sanction contracts for labour which is carried on under conditions which imperil the life and safety of those engaged in the labour, for that is subordinating the person to the contract instead of the contract to the person." Written by James Black Baillie Narrated by Joshua Noyer Baillie, J. B. “The Moral and Legal Aspects of Labour.” The Philosophical Review 20, no. 3 (1911): 249. https://doi.org/10.2307/2177849
May 9 2022
41 mins
The Doom of Realism
"Yet Realism, if indeed strictly sane, as sanity goes amongst us men, is a view as falsely abstract as it is convenient. This sundering of external and internal meaning is precisely what our later study will show to be impossible." Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer Royce, Josiah. In The World and the Individual. Gifford Lectures, 72–77. New York: Macmillan, 1900.
May 9 2022
11 mins
Maintaining Perspective
"Faith and logic become synonymous through their mutual dependence on each other, just as do the existence of love, anger, passion, and contentment. The ties that bind may at first glance appear to be the cause of division, but in the end, they are what make us." Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
May 8 2022
16 mins
The Philosophical Idealism of Emerson
"When we speak of the philosophy of a poet, we have in mind that attitude toward life as a whole which is the expression of his dominant, and more or less persistently dominant, mood. If he be a great poet, he is successful in presenting the things his genius touches upon in the light of the whole." Written by Charles Bakewell Narrated by Joshua Noyer Bakewell, Charles M. “The Philosophy of Emerson.” The Philosophical Review 12, no. 5 (1903): 525. https://doi.org/10.2307/2176675
May 8 2022
31 mins
Royce Explains Idealism
"The real world is therefore not something independent of us. It is a world whose stuff, so to speak, whose content, is of the nature of experience, whose structure meets, validates, and gives warrant to our active deeds, and whose whole nature is such that it can be interpreted in terms of ideas, propositions, and conscious meanings, while in turn it gives to our fragmentary ideas and to our conscious life whatever connected meaning they possess." Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer Royce, J. (1908). Pp. 360-373. In The Philosophy of Loyalty. New York: Macmillan Company.
May 8 2022
18 mins
Identity in Diversity
"Taking it, however, as if it were prima facie roughly true, that every different finite individual has a single and separate work or function in society, which corroborates, so to speak, the distinctness of his formal selfhood; we are still in presence of a thoroughgoing identity in diversity." Written by Bernard Bosanquet Narrated by Joshua Noyer
May 6 2022
11 mins
Knowing and Acting
"For the philosopher—the lover of, and believer in, unity—is not surprised by differences; he expects them: he is quite ready to acknowledge them, and has no desire to ignore or belittle them. What he believes in is not mere or blank unity, or unity alongside of differences, or even unity permitting them, but systematic or organic unity which requires differences within its ordered and harmonious structure." Written by J.A. Smith Narrated by Joshua Noyer
May 5 2022
52 mins
The Philosophical Aspects of Corporatism
"For the establishment of an occupational ethic and law in the different economic occupations, the corporation, instead of remaining a confused aggregate, without unity, would have to become again a defined, organized group; in a word, a public institution." Written by Emile Durkheim Narrated by Joshua Noyer Durkheim, E. (1893/1933). -The Division of Labor in Society – George Simpson., trans. - New York: Macmillan - Preface to the second edition, pp. 1-31
May 2 2022
1 hr 4 mins
The State
"The state in and by itself is the ethical whole, the actualization of freedom; and it is an absolute end of reason that freedom should be actual. The state is mind on earth and consciously realizing itself there." Written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Narrated by Joshua Noyer Pp 155-158, 279. Hegel, G. W. (1942). Hegel's Philosophy of right (1003178556 773480545 T. M. Knox, Trans.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
May 2 2022
14 mins
Ideas Have Consequences
If you truly believe that politics is as simple as cabals of evil people manipulating events in secret or our welfare is determined by an R or D next to a politicians name, then the leap over to the Jews are running the world or racial diversity is destroying communities is not a giant leap but more like a hop or skip; it’s the exchange of one form of simplistic thought for another. Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
May 2 2022
19 mins
The State as the Will of the Nation
"We make a great mistake in thinking of the force exercised by the State as limited to the restraint of disorderly persons by the police and the punishment of intentional lawbreakers. The State is the fly-wheel of our life." Written by Bernard Bosanquet Narrated by Joshua Noyer Pp 150-154 Bosanquet, B. (1899). The philosophical theory of the state. London: Macmillan.
Apr 30 2022
9 mins
The Community of Time
"The rule that time is needed for the formation of a conscious community is a rule which finds its extremely familiar analogy within the life of every individual human self. Each one of us knows that he just now, at this instant, cannot find more than a mere fragment of himself present. The self comes down to us from its own past. It needs and is a history. Each of us can see that his own idea of himself as this person is inseparably bound up with his view of his own former life, of the plans that he formed, of the fortunes that fashioned him, and of the accomplishments which in turn he has fashioned for himself. A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past." Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer “Pp. 35-53.” The Problem of Christianity Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford Vol II, by Josiah Royce, Macmillan, 1914.
Apr 30 2022
24 mins
