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
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

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Notes regarding WdW II, 496b-497

1. Corresponds to NC 564.

2. "Standing in the truth" is participation in the fullness of meaning.

3. If we presume self-sufficiency, we stand in falsehood.

4. Standing in the truth frees us from the prejudices of immanence philosophy.

5. He regards the division between faith and reason as due to nominalism.

6. In our selfhood, our knowledge of God transcends the horizon of time. but temporally, we are bound by the function of faith.

7. A Christian view of science does not substitute truths of faith for theoretical knowledge

8. Dooyeweerd opposes Kant, but he also opposes any reversion to pre-Kantian rationalistic metaphysics.