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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.)
| Arché |
I, 10-11, 17, 19, 23-25, 29-31, 33, 45, 53-54, 57,
64, 66-68, 69 (Being of the Arché), 74 -75(Being
of the Arché), 77, 132
III, Foreword
NC I, 8 (view of totaltiy is not possible without a view of the
origin or arché), 11 (arché of our
selfhood; arché transcends all meaning), 13, 34.
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| Origin |
I, 6, 10, 13, 24, 30, 39, 59 (of law), 62, 67, 76, 129, 131
II, 409
NC I, 4 (meaning has a divine origin), 9 (genuine philosophy
is thought directed to the origin), 10 (true Origin is absolute
and self-sufficient), 11 (philospohic thought attains the Origin
only after questions cease to be meaningful; tendency toward the
origin), 55 (knowledge of the origin is rooted in the heart), 68-113,
506-508, 548
The selfhood stands under a law of religious concentration,
which makes it restlessly search for its own Origin and that of
the whole cosmos. “Het dilemma voor het christelijk wijsgeerig
denken en het critisch karakter van de Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee,”
Philosophia Reformata 1 (1936), 1-16, at 14.
Het transcendentale critiek van het wijsgeerig
denken,” Philosophia Reformata 6 (1941), 1-20, at
15 Just as the cosmic, ontical coherence of meaning refers beyond
itself to the Archimedean point as concentration point of modal
diversity, so the Archimedean point, from which we view the modal
aspects in a a view of meaning-totality, refers beyond itself to
the Origin of all meaning which indeed is absolute and self-sufficient.
Self-consciousness is unbreakably bound with consciousness of our
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The Arché is our Origin. This is our origin in
an ontological sense, as opposed to the Archimedean
point, which is our origin in an epistemological sense. Rationalistic
metaphysics maintained the idea of God as our Arché, but believed
that we could begin with the autonomy of thought.
Later humanistic metaphysics combined thought into both the Arché
and the Archimedean Point. According to humanistic metaphysics, we ourselves
create our own reality by constructing
the chaotic mass of sensory impressions.
The Idea of the Arché is one of three transcendental
Ideas within each Ground-Motive:
(1) our Idea of the integral coherence of meaning in
cosmic time,
(2) the Idea of the ultimate unity of human selfhood
and
(3) that of the absolute Origin (Urwesen).(I, 89; NC
I:68-113, 506-508)
There is an inherent tendency within temporal created
reality towards the Origin. If we do not accept the True Origin (God)
we make up our own origin by absolutizing
an aspect of temporal reality.
In the Foreword to Vol. III of the WdW, Dooyeweerd says
that the WdW is characterized not by the deisre for originality [oorspronkelijkheids-],
but for the Origin [Oorsprongszucht]. That Foreword does not
appear in the NC.
Baader says that we must either freely accept being subjected
to God's law, or else we will attempt to set up our own law in an autonomous
way. Such a person seeks the Origin in his or her own image, and not in
the image of God (Zeit, 31).
Revised Setp 26/07
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