Owens said the concept of a beloved community began in 1933 with Josiah Royce, a Harvard philosopher and theologian, who described the community as an ideal that focuses on “mutual concern, justice ...

Although King popularized the beloved community, the phrase has roots in the thought of 19th-century American religious philosopher Josiah Royce. In 1913, toward the end of his long career ...

At the beginning of the 20th Century American philosopher Josiah Royce penned a book he titled “The Philosophy of Loyalty.” Loyalty is an admirable virtue and Royce thought of it ...