Josiah Royce admitted that he had been preoccupied with the problem of the community during his entire philosophical career. The question, therefore, of the development of the social consciousness is central to Royce's thought. The present article is an attempt at a kind of phenomenology of the growth of the social consciousness in the works where he explicitly treats of the subject. These consist in a number of significant articles of his early career, in his last work The Problem of Christianity and in an article written for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics. The early articles develop the emergence of the social consciousness in dialectical relationship with individual consciousness. The Problem of Christianity completes the treatm...