Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

Herman Dooyeweerd:
De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee (1935-36)
Excerpt on Epistemology, Volume II

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The Gegenstand
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Notes regarding WdW II, 420

1. Corresponds to NC II, 485. The NC translates the last paragraphs quite differently.

2. The kernel is its anticipations and retrocipations. We do not know the kernel in itself. We only have an Idea of a modality

3. The kernel expresses itself in the analogies. Note that Dooyeweerd uses analogy in the sense of retrocipations, which is how the NC translates it. Earlier works always referred to only retrocipations as analogies. Later on he viewed anticipations as also analogous.

4. Door-schouwing is seeing through something.

5. I prefer "laying open" rather than “laying bare” which is the NC translation.

6. NC doesn’t refer to the intuition of essences [Wesenanschauung]

7. Note the view of static clarity. An Idea doesn't achieve static clarity. This is because theory is in the movement of the unfolding process. It is not in the resting position of enstasis.