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© J. Glenn Friesen 2003-2004 |
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Glossary of Terms
(references to De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee, unless
indicated.See concordance
for correlation with pages in the New Critique. The concordance
is in pdf format.)
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NC II, 33 |
| meaninglessness |
III, 11
NC III, 30
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Baader says that if the concept cannot be shown to relate
to the Center, it is meaningless
(Begründung109; Werke XV, 160).
Dooyeweerd speaks of dread, emptiness and meaninglessness
when the world seems to be shut up in itself. This occurs even for Christians,
because we are all affected by the fall:
Because he is not exempt from the solidarity of the
fall into sin, every Christian knows the emptiness of an experience
of the temporal world which seems to be shut up in itself. He knows
the impersonal attitude of a "man" in the routine of common
life and the dread of nothingness, the meaningless, if he tries to find
himself again in 'existential isolation.' (NC III, 30).
But Dooyeweerd says that even in the most extreme apostasy,
without the restraining influence of cosmic time, the reality would not
be totally meaningless (NC II, 33).
Revised Dec 27/04
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