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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.)
| concentration |
NC I, 31 (religious concentration
of the radix of our existence), 57 (religion
as the innate impulse of human selfhood to direct itself toward
the true or pretended absolute Origin of all temporal diversity
of meaning, which it finds focused concentrically in itself).
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. |
| concentric |
NC I, 33 (concentric relatedness to the selfhood),
57 (religion can be approximated only in the concentric direction
of our consciousness, not in the divergent one, not as a Gegenstand) |
| concentration point |
I, 7 (selfhood), 19, 24, 25 (concentration of existence),
26, 30-31
NC I, 5 (selfhood as concentration point of all
my cosmic functions), 15 (truth of the radical concentration
point is immediately evident), 31 (supratemporal), 59 (ego as
concentration point of our individual existence)
NC III, 783 (rational-moral functions concentrated in man)
“Het dilemma voor het christelijk wijsgeerig
denken,” Philosophia Reformata 1 (1936) 1-16 [‘Dilemma’]
at 13. All modal aspects of temporal human existence find their
supra-modal concentration point in the selfhood.
“Het transcendentale critiek van het wijsgeerig
denken,” Philosophia Reformata 6 (1941), 1-20 at
11.The Archimedean point is supra-individual, since is is not only
the concentration point of individual human existence, but of the
whole temporal cosmos in its diversity of modal aspects. But our
individual thinking selfhood must participate in this supra-individual
point of concentration. Pag 12: selfhood as concentration point
of the whole of individual temporal human existence. |
| religious law of concentration |
I, 131
Encyclopedia of Legal Science (1967 SRVU edition)_, 22
"Wj kunnen deze wet de religieuze concentratiewet noemen." |
Our selfhood is the concentration point of temporal reality.
In this concentration point, all meaning-aspects coincide
in a fullness of meaning. the concentration
point in which all the different modalities coalesce
is not an ontical sphere of substances. It is the concentration point
of meaning in the image of God, which is nothing
in itself, but rather the reflection of the Divine Being in the central
human sphere of creaturely meaning. (NC III, 69).
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.
The Idea of the selfhood as a concentration point is
the reverse of the image of the prism, in which
the undifferentiated unity of the selfhood is differentiated
by cosmic time.
We cannot get beyond the opposition in the Gegenstand
relation unless it is directed above itself to a transcendent supra-temporal
concentration point (NC I, 31).
Revised Sept 26/07
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