Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

Studies relating to
Herman Dooyeweerd
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De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee Volume I
Foreword
Introduction
Ground-Idea
Foundation
Law-Idea
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

© J. Glenn Friesen 2003, 2004

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(references to De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee, unless indicated.See concordance for correlation with pages in the New Critique. The concordance is in pdf format.)

approach II, 420
approximate

I, 39, 71
II, 414

NC I, 34 (philosophical-theoretical attitude approximates time in the analytic splitting up of the aspects, which nevertheless retain their coherence), 57 (religion can be approximated only in the concentric direction of our consciousness, not in the divergent one, not as a Gegenstand)
approximation  

We approximate in an Idea that which cannot be comprehended in a concept. In theoretical concepts, there has been a dis-stasis, and an epoché from the continuity of cosmic time. Ideas are an attempt to approximate the continuity of cosmic time (I, 71).

Theoretical intuition is the condition of all synthesis of meaning by which we obtain knowledge. It can never be contained in a concept, but can only be approximated in a transcendental Idea.

Revised Dec. 27/04