Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

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

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De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee Volume I
Foreword
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Ground-Idea
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Prism of Cosmic Time
Law and Subject
Philosophy/Worldview

De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee Volume II
The Gegenstand
Dis-stasis/ Synthesis
Intuition and Time
Conceptual Limits
Horizon and Levels
God, Self and Cosmos

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Notes regarding WdW II, p. 482

Corresponds to NC

Notes
1. There are levels of the ontical apriori conditions of reality. This has been disregarded by most philosophers who profess to follow Dooyeweerd. They are different levels in relation to time.
2. NC improperly has “communal structure” of the religious root
3. NC here translates ‘instelling’ as ‘attitude.’ I have translated it as ‘enstatic placing’ since elsewhere he contrasts in-stelling and uiteen-stelling in this sense. It seems to me that the emphasis here is on ontical placement rather than an attitude, although that is also evident in the reference to “direction.”

It is the selfhood that experiences.

Selfhood is subjectr, in that it is determined and limited by law [within the temporal]

limited and determiend is a kind of differentiation within time