Ron, This sounds exactly right and in line with what I've read of Royce:
This rendering of wholes out of the many bits of experience is an artistic > act so that it is a will toward greater > Meaning not so much a truth in terms > Of absolutes. > Royce emphasizes the absolute nature of the artistic will, but I agree he could have used a better term: "For one finds what it is that one must construct even if one denies that, in the ideal world of free construction which one is seeking to define, that construction has a place. In brief, all such researches illustrate the fact that while the truth which we acknowledge is indeed relative to the will which acknowledges that truth, still what one may call the pure form of willing is an absolute form, a form which sustains itself in the very effort to violate its own laws. We thus find out absolute truth, but it is absolute truth about the nature of the creative will in terms of which we conceive all truths. Now it is perfectly true that such absolute truth is not accessible to the empirical world, in so far as we deal with individual phenomena. But it is also true that we all of us conceive the unity of the world of experience — the meaning, the sense, the connection of its facts — in terms of those categories which express precisely this very form of our creative activity. Hence, although every empirical truth is relative, all relative truth is inevitably defined by us as subject to conditions which themselves are absolute. This, which Kant long ago maintained, gets a very new meaning in the light of recent logic, — a far deeper meaning, I think, than Kant could conceive." The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion This is his later work where his thought has evolved towards what he termed Absolute Pragmatism - and I'd say to THIS group, what could be more pragmatic than the reality of ideals? John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
