On Royce / Griffin Trotter.

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Proponent of absolute idealism, the metaphysical view that all aspects of reality, involving those we experience as disconnected or contradictory, are ultimately unified in the thought of a single all-compassing consciousness. His philosophy of loyalty contends of man's notions that he comes to moral awareness in a world of already established aims and social projects, that moral responsibility requires a self-conscious and deliberate individual choice to embrace particular causes, and that the highest forms of ethical conduct involve dedication and effort in service of a cause that offers no promise of final success.