Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

Herman Dooyeweerd:
De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee

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Notes regarding WdW I, 74-75

Corresponds to NC I, 108.

1. The idea of the subject as sujet, sub-jected to law, is found in Baader.

2. I, 75. Dooyeweerd refers to the apostate attitude of thought. He hyphenates the word as 'apo-statische.' There is therefore a play on the word 'static' from 'sta' to stand. In naive experience we are in the en-static attitude, in full temporal reality. The apo-static attitude is then a moving from [apo] stasis. When we absolutize the temporal, we do not experience reality as it really is, in true stasis. apostasy is therefore not only an attitude against God, it is an attitude against reality. This is why Dooyeweerd can say that in apostate thought we do not understand ourselves, God or the cosmos. Later, Dooyeweerd makes a very interesting contrast between apostatic and anastatic (I, 80).

3. Dooyeweerd refers to the 'rational spheres of consciousness" in contrast to the 'natural' [pre-logical]. In Kant's philosophy, these natural spheres are seen only as "object." And the subject is not seen as "sujet" or "sub-jected."