A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Vol. 1 (Collected Works, Series A)
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Overview
“Highly esteemed Mr. Dooyeweerd: yours is the great merit to have seen that today we can no longer philosophize, as was still possible in the so-called modern era, without answering the question - or at least raising it - in what way philosophy and Christianity relate to each other. Today we know all too well that all philosophizing takes place against the background of a culture that in essential respects is determined by its religion, even in its anti-religious voices and moods or in its seemingly indifferent discussions and argumentation. The period in which philosophy and religion marched separately (or claimed that they could and should do so) is gone.”
—Richard Kroner, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kiel
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- Presents a work that is deeply is rooted in the tradition of Dutch Neo-Calvinism
- Responds to what Dooyeweerd saw as the spiritual and philosophical crisis of modern Western thought
- Offers the core framework of Dooyeweerd’s Christian philosophical system “Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea” (also known as the Philosophy of the Law-Idea)
- The transcendental criticism of theoretical thought and the central significance of the transcendental ground-idea for philosophy
- Philosophy and life- and world-view
- The basic structure of the humanistic transcendental ground-idea and the intrinsic polarity between the classical science-ideal and the ideal of personality
- The ideal of personality and the natural science-ideal in the first types of their mutual polar tension under the primacy of the former
- The ideal of personality and the ideal of science in the critical transition to the primacy of the ideal of personality
- The line of demarcation between the ideals of science and of personality in Kant. The (critical) dualist idealistic type of transcendental ground-idea under the primacy of the humanist ideal of personality
- The tension between the ideal of science and that of personality in the indentityphilosophy of post-Kantian freedom-idealism
- The victory of the irrationalist over the rationalist conception of the humanistic transcendental ground-idea. The ideal of personality in its irrationalist turn in the philosophy of life
- The antithetical and synthetical standpoints in Christian philosophical thought
- The systematic plan of our further investigations and a closer examination of the relation of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea to the special sciences