Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

Herman Dooyeweerd:
De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee

Home
Dooyeweerd
Linked Glossary
List of Notes

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, 71b

1. Corresponds to NC 106.

2. There is a successive refraction of meaning. The aspects are in a certain order of cosmic time, an order of earlier and later. This temporal order is continuous. It becomes discontinuous when there is dis-stasis. The logical aspect is then discontinuous with the aspects to which it is opposed.

Vollenhoven did not agree that the order of the aspects was a temporal order.

3. Because concepts are discontinuous, our theory can only approximate the continuity of time. This is done in "limiting concepts," or Ideas.

4. The logos [in the sense of all meaning] is relativized by cosmic time into the various aspects. This is not a logical relativity, but a cosmological relativity.

5. The logical aspect has laws of thinking that cannot be relativized; if we try to do so, it leads to antinomies.

6. NC has 'logical function' instead of 'logos.'