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Royce, Josiah 1855-1916
US philosopher

Born in Grass Valley, California, he trained as an engineer. He later turned to philosophy, studied in Germany and at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore (under Charles Sanders Peirce), and taught at Harvard from 1882. He was greatly influenced by Hegel, and developed a philosophy of idealism emphasizing the importance of the individual in Religious Aspects of Philosophy (1885) and The World and the Individual (1900-01). He also wrote on mathematical logic, social ethics, psychology and religion.