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De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee Volume I
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The Gegenstand
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God, Self and Cosmos

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Abraham Kuyper
Frederik van Eeden

 

© J. Glenn Friesen 2003-2004

 

 

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Articles by Herman Dooyeweerd:

1. Neo-Mysticism and Frederik van Eeden

2. The Problem of Time in the Philosophy of the Law-Idea

3. In Dooyeweerd's last article, De Kentheoretische Gegenstandsrelatie en de Logische Subject-Objectrelatie." written in 1975 (two years before his death), he strongly criticizes the ideas of many of those who claim to follow his philosophy. His criticism is directed primarily at the interpretation of the Philosophy of the Law-Idea by D.F.M. Strauss. This article deserves to be studied closely by reformational philosophers today.

 

Articles by D.H.Th. Vollenhoven:

1. Divergentierapport I [Report of Divergences I]

2. Problemen van de tijd in onze kring [Problems about time in our gorup]

3. Problemen rondom de tijd [Problems about time]

4. Excerpts from Vollenhoven's student writings on Frederik van Eeden.

 

The Responses by Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven to the Curators of the Vrije Universiteit (1937-38).

In 1937, both Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven were asked by the Curators of the Vrije Universiteit to respond to accusations about their philosophy which had been made by the theologian Valentin Hepp in a series of brochures he published entitled Dreigende Deformatie [Threatening Deformation]. The Responses by Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven are essential to understanding their respective philosophies, and their views on how they fit into the Reformed tradition See Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven: Responses to the Curators (1937-38).

 

Articles about Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven:

1. J. Glenn Friesen: “The Mystical Dooyeweerd: The Relation of his Thought to Franz von Baader,” Ars Disputandi 3 (2003) ,
[http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000088/index.html].

2. Since writing my article "The Mystical Dooyeweerd," I have proved that Kuyper had extensive knowledge and appreciation for Baader's philosophy. See J. Glenn Friesen: “The Mystical Dooyeweerd Once Again: Kuyper’s Use of Franz von Baader,” Ars Disputandi 3 (2003), [http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000130/index.html].

3. The reformational philosopher D.F.M. Strauss has criticized my article "The Mystical Dooyeweerd." In my response, I have shown how Strauss has made serious misinterpretations of both Baader and Dooyeweerd. My response has also allowed me to show the wider scope of some of the issues involved.
See J. Glenn Friesen: Dooyeweerd and Baader: A Response to D.F.M. Strauss.

4. J. Glenn Friesen: “Monism, Dualism, Nondualism: A Problem with Vollenhoven’s Problem-Historical Method

5. J. Glenn Friesen:"Individuality Structures and Enkapsis: Individuation from Totality in Dooyeweerd and German Idealism."

6. J. Glenn Friesen:"Dooyeweerd, Spann and The Philosophy of Totality" Philosophia Reformata 70 (2005), 2-22.

 

Articles by Franz von Baader

I have translated the following articles by Franz von Baader:

1. Concerning the Concept of Time (1818) [Über den Begriff der Zeit]

2. Elementary concepts concerning Time: As Introduction to the Philosophy of Society and History (1831) [Elementarbegriffe über die Zeit: als Einleitung zur Philosophie der Sozietät und Geschichte]

3. Concerning the conflict of religious faith and knowledge as the spiritual root of the decline of religious and political society in our time as in every time (1833) [Über den Zwiespalt des Religiösen Glaubens und Wissens als die geistige Wurzel des Verfalls der religiösen und politischen Societät in unserer wie in jeder Zeit]

List of Notes

Almost every passage that I have translated from Dooyeweerd's Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee has notes commenting on the passage. Some of these notes are longer than others. For example, the Notes on the Foreword has a discussion about the origins of Dooyeweerd's philosophy. Other notes relevant to the sources that Dooyeweerd used are the notes on his relation to the following"

Franz von Baader

Abraham Kuyper

D.H.Th. Vollenhoven

Frederik van Eeden.

Because I have interpreted Dooyeweerd's philosophy in terms of nondualism, it is important to see what he himself said about some Hindu Ideas. See Dooyeweerd's own comparison to Hinduism.

Some of the most detailed commentary occurs in the meaning of the terms that Dooyeweerd uses. A list of these terms is given in the Linked Glossary. Many of these entries are mini-essays in themselves. Among the most important are the entries relating to:

Abstraction. How different is Dooyeweerd's view from that of reformational philosophers like D.F.M. Strauss or Roy Clouser?

Aspects. Do not assume you know what Dooyeweerd means by this.

Calvinism. Is Dooyeweerd's philosophy really Calvinistic?

Cosmic Consciousness. What does Dooyeweerd mean?

Cosmic Time. A key idea for Dooyeweerd's philosophy.

Creation, Fall and Redemption. Again, do not assume that you know what Dooyeweerd means by this Christian Ground-Motive.

Experience. Dooyeweerd's philosophy is based on experience.

Gegenstand. What does Dooyeweerd understand by the Gegenstand-relation?

The selfhood as distinct from the ego.

Stasis, and its related words enstasis, dis-stasis, systasis, anastasis, and stand.

Supratemporal Root. Humanity was created as the root of temporal reality. What does this mean?

Finally, there is a Bibliography that lists most of the works referred to in these Notes.

Revised Oct. 17/05