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...large audience in Sever 11, last night, Dr. Royce gave the second of his series of four lectures on the "Religious Aspect of Philosophy. The special subject of this lecture was some suggestions about the theoretical element in religion...
...defined as a perfectly impersonal view of all conscious life and as action based upon such a view. The lecturer then spoke of the relation of the real world to the moral law. Does the real world offer any support to us in doing right? that is, what aspect of reality helps us to fix our attention on our neighbor's experiences as being just as valuable...
...positively moral act. The real world offers support to true morality only in so far as it can show us that we are not alone when we try to act morally. If something in nature tends to realize genuine morality, then this something may show us a religious aspect of nature. For religion seeks in nature for something that gives support to the moral law. Now in two directions we may seek for such a religious aspect of nature: namely, in the laws of mental life and in the laws of physical life. To consider the first of these...
...laws of mental growth in all cases of completed growth, and thus, however evil the world may be, there is always in a man's nature a tendency that leads one to rest nowhere but in the possession of true moral insight. This, then, is the first religious aspect of reality. Whatever power planned the world, this power ended in making man's nature harmonize with morality, and this religious truth we can keep in mind, whatever else is doubtful. Dr. Royce closed the lecture by suggesting a few thoughts introductory to the further consideration of the religious aspect...
...Royce gives his second lecture on "The Religious Aspect of Philosophy" in Sever 11 this evening...