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Notes regarding WdW I, 37 1. Corresponds to NC I, 24. The NC has the heading: “The immanence of all modal aspects of meaning in time.” 2. NC changes ‘root’ to ‘centre.’ 3. The phrase “the full temporal reality has a law-side and a subject-side” is not included in the NC. 4. The NC adds the important statement “The idea of cosmic time constitutes the basis of the philosophical theory of reality in this book.” (NC I, 28.) This statement has been ignored by many who profess to be adherents of Dooyeweerd. but he regards the supratemporal selfhood as the key of knowledge. this Idea is not possible without the view of cosmic time. 5. Dooyeweerd speaks of the aevum as intermediate state between eternity and cosmic time.See "Het tijdsprobleem en zijn antinomieën," Philosophia Reformata. I, (1936) 65-83, (IV) (1939) 4-5: "Ik zou nochtans den term 'aevum' in den zin v an een tusschen toestand tusschen tijd en eeuwigheid, gaarne willen overnemen. Ik meen, dat daartegen te minder, bezwaar kan bestaan, omdat hij in dezen zin juist in den Christelijken gedachtengang is opgekomen, die behoefte gevoelde aan een onderscheiding tusschen de boventijdelijke in creatuur-lijken zin en de eeuwigheid in den zin van het zijn Gods." The aevum is the state of our supratemporal selfhood. It is not the same as God's eternity. But neither is it the same as cosmic time. 6. Eternity, even the eternity of God, is not to be seen as static (NC I, 31, ft). 7. Dooyeweerd planned to discuss time further in a fourth volume of the WdW. There is no fourth volume. The NC has an expanded section on time. NC I, 25-69, although there is some overlap with other sections of the WdW. Dooyeweerd also published a separate work Het tijdsprobleeem in de Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee ("The problem of time in the Philosophy of the law-Idea"), Philosophia Reformata (1940) pp. 160ff and pp. 193ff. 8. I, 37 Immanence philosophy sees the temporal world as a world of things (Dingwelt) in contrast to noumenon. Dooyeweerd's philosophy does not begin with things. 9. The NC addes (NC I, 24) that cosmic time has both a time-order and a time-duration. The order is the order of the aspects. Duration is related to things which appear and disappear in time.
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