This book features Josiah Royce as an American national character, who discussed topics, such as morality, academia, materialism, idealism, and liberty as well as people. Royce tried to resolve the contradictions of community, individual, and world. The editors examined how imagination works in Royce's philosophy and, in particular, the ethical system of loyalty, as imagination serves in the creation and perfection of loyalty. Royce's moral theory reveals how loyalty rather than being just one virtue among others, is central to living a genuinely moral and meaningful life. His notion of community places us on the right footing towards an attempt to escape the dualism of individual and community.