Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

Herman Dooyeweerd:
De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee

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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.

Notes regarding WdW I, 57

1. Corresponds to NC I, 93.

2. Dooyeweerd's Calvinistic testimony in this section is omitted in the NC. Dooyeweerd moved away from referring to his philosophy as Calvinistic.

3. Dooyeweerd gives his account of how he arrived at the law-Idea. The reference to Leibniz is interesting. Van Eeden certainly refers to Leibniz with respect to modalities, and van Eeden also develops an idea of law. Dooyeweerd does not mention van Eeden. Nor does he mention Baader, with whom his thought seems even more deeply connected. As Verburg remarks, Dooyeweerd has nowhere given a detailed account of the development of his philosophy. See Notes on the Foreword.

4. Both law and subjectivity (being subject to law) reveal themselves in the relation and coherence of the aspects.