The Growing Edges of Beloved Community
From Royce to Thurman and King
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8903251 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kipton E Jensen (corresponding author), Kipton Jensen Kipton Jensen |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 239-239 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-1774 • E-ISSN: 1558-9587 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.52.2.07 |
| OpenAlex | W2519514733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Howard Thurman acknowledged a certain indebtedness to Josiah Royce, especially to his conception of the beloved community and philosophy of loyalty. Royce also exercised an influence, directly or indirectly, through Thurman and others, on the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. The African American experience altered significantly if not decisively the socioethical trajectory of this trope – “the beloved community” – within the history of philosophy and theology in America. Beyond the “legal aspect of integration,” which involves changes in policies and regulations, Howard Thurman emphasized in 1966 a “second meaning of integration that has to do with the quality of human relations.” Although the genius of Thurman or King cannot be reduced to the ideas of their predecessors, whether Royce and Du Bois, whether intellectual or cultural, this essay demonstrates that something valuable is gained by revisiting the philosophical history as well as the pragmatic meaning of this trope from Royce to Thurman and King
Political science · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |