Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302005
Hans Van Eyghen
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302009
G. Glas, J. de Ridder, M. Berger
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302007
Chris van Haeften
Introduction to the translation of “Het dilemma voor het christelijk wijsgeerig denken en het critisch karakter van de wijsbegeerte der wetsidee” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1936), Philosophia Reformata 1 (1), pp. 3–16. See doi 10.1163/23528230-08302008.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302003
D. Strauss
Dooyeweerd was struck by the fact that different systems of philosophy expressly oriented their philosophic thought to the idea of a divine world order. The dialectic of form and matter permeated both Greek and medieval philosophy. The distinction between natural laws and laws of nature is highlighted with reference to Descartes and Beeckman. A key distinction for an understanding of the order of the world is given in the difference between modal laws and type laws. In order to substantiate this claim, an explication of the nature of the order for the world has to explore elements derived from the four most basic modes of explanation: number (the one and the many), space (universality), the kinematic (constancy), and the physical aspect (change). These points of entry serve theoretical thought with terms that may either be employed in a conceptual way or in a concept-transcending way. The influence of nominalism on the thought of Dooyeweerd is analyzed in some more detail.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302006
R. Henderson
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302008
H. Dooyeweerd
Translation of “Het dilemma voor het christelijk wijsgeerig denken en het critisch karakter van de wijsbegeerte der wetsidee” by Herman Dooyeweerd (1936), Philosophia Reformata 1 (1), pp. 3–16. For the Introduction to this translation, see doi 10.1163/23528230-08302007.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302002
D. Dettloff
The problem-historical method of D.H.Th. Vollenhoven is easily, rightly or wrongly, seen as needlessly idiosyncratic and esoteric, casting the suspicion that it is no longer useful for understanding contemporary philosophers. I suggest, however, that a “comparative typological reading” that utilizes Vollenhovean types as productive failures could provide new avenues for the method. That is, by failing to capture the uniqueness of certain discourses, using the ontology of Slavoj Žižek as a test case, Vollenhoven’s types help articulate certain misunderstandings of those discourses. In doing so, a new theoretical type, what I call a “ruptured monism,” emerges in order to summarize Žižek’s ontology, operating as a possible contemporary expansion of Vollenhoven’s taxonomy. The paper intends, then, to demonstrate there may be creative and underexplored uses of Vollenhoven for illuminating contemporary philosophy, suggesting a future for Reformational historiography.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-14DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08302004
P. Nullens
Hope is a complex and multifaceted syndrome, an emotion as well as a virtue. It requires attention in a Christian economic paradigm oriented at justice and human flourishing. This article makes a case for this type of interdisciplinary research. Our focus lies on hope with a high (aspirational) agency and prudence. In recent economics, with increasing appreciation for relationships, well-being, and the common good, there is an openness to motivational concepts such as hope. Positive psychology has also given attention to hope as a form of well-being and resilience. We stress the importance of embedding hope in a Christian worldview in the tradition of Abraham Kuyper’s Pro Rege and the work of Nicholas Wolterstorff. Christian thinking fosters the relationship between hope, faith, moral orientation, and worship as imagining a different future. Hope as a prudent art of potentiality is a transformational power, creating a society where humans can flourish and fight off anxiety and despair.
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