Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10032
Robert-Jan van Putten
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Pub Date : 2021-10-07DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10028
J. Hasselaar
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Pub Date : 2021-09-17DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10027
Bálint Békefi
Cornelius Van Til and Alvin Plantinga represent two strands of American Protestant philosophical thought influenced by Dutch neo-Calvinism. This paper compares and synthetizes their models of knowledge in non-Christians given the noetic effects of sin and non-Christian worldview commitments. The paper argues that Van Til’s distinction between the partial realization of the antithesis in practice and its absolute nature in principle correlates with Plantinga’s insistence on prima facie–warranted common-sense beliefs and their ultimate defeasibility given certain metaphysical commitments. Van Til endorsed more radical claims than Plantinga on epistemic defeat in non-Christian worldviews, the status of the sensus divinitatis, and conceptual accuracy in knowledge of the world. Finally, an approach to the use of evidence in apologetics is developed based on the proposed synthesis. This approach seeks to make more room for evidence than is generally recognized in Van Tilianism, while remaining consistent with the founder’s principles.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-30DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10021
J. Skillen
Resolving Dooyeweerd’s temporal/supratemporal dialectic opens the way to a deeper appreciation of naive experience and human identity as the image of God. This essay makes a case for that proposition, building on my critique of Dooyeweerd’s idea of cosmic time published previously in this journal. There I hypothesized that time—temporality—should be recognized as the first modal aspect rather than as a transaspectual common denominator of the other aspects. The religious root unity of the human community is not a supratemporal, spiritual concentration point but rather humans themselves in their generations answering to God in all that they are and do. Humans are not temporal bodies directed by imperishable souls but whole persons-in-community, subject to all the modal laws and norms (including the temporal), living by faith in the true God or in false gods throughout this age, which opens to creation’s fulfillment in the age to come.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10026
R. Sweetman
This is a study of D. H. Th. Vollenhoven’s type-focused historiography of philosophy and its development with respect to pre-Socratic philosophy. It uses the work of Pierre Hadot on philosophical askesis, the work of Martha Nussbaum on therapeutic argument, and recent work on the transformative character of Aquinas’s Summa contra Gentiles and Summa theologiae to question some of the central assumptions of Vollenhoven’s methodology. In the process, Vollenhoven’s practice is compared to and contrasted with the historiographical practice of Aristotle in his Metaphysics. What emerges is a way to acknowledge the continued worth of type-focused reading and the religious intuitions that gave rise to it, but on the basis of different methodological assumptions and to different historiographical effects.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10020
J. Skillen
Herman Dooyeweerd (1953, 28) writes that “the idea of cosmic time constitutes the basis of the philosophical theory of reality in [A New Critique to Theoretical Thought].” My aim is to present and defend the hypothesis that Dooyeweerd’s idea of time is, in part, mistaken at its foundation. His idea of a cosmic temporal coherence of diverse modal aspects arose from the absolutization of a concept of temporal universality that he adopted uncritically as the transcendental basic Idea of cosmic time. My immanent-critical assessment leads to the hypothesis that temporality should be recognized as the first modal aspect, which, for Dooyeweerd, has been lost to view. Recovering both the sphere sovereignty of the temporal aspect and the equal universality of all aspects opens the way to a resolution of Dooyeweerd’s temporal/supratemporal dialectic and to a new perspective on naive experience and the meaning of humans as God’s image.
Herman Dooyeweerd(1953, 28)写道:“宇宙时间的概念构成了《理论思想新批判》中关于实在的哲学理论的基础。”我的目的是提出并捍卫这样一个假设，即Dooyeweerd的时间观念在某种程度上是错误的。他关于不同模态方面的宇宙时间一致性的观点源于时间普遍性概念的绝对化，他不加批判地将其作为宇宙时间的先验基本理念。我的内在批判评估导致了这样一个假设，即时间性应该被认为是第一模态方面，对于Dooyeweerd来说，这一点已经被忽视了。恢复时间方面的领域主权和所有方面的平等普遍性为解决Dooyeweerd的时间/超时间辩证法开辟了道路，并为朴素经验和人类作为上帝形象的意义开辟了新的视角。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1163/23528230-BJA10024
Chris van Haeften
Herman Dooyeweerd approached time in terms of order. By contrast, Dirk Vollenhoven saw time as continuous change and becoming. Hendrik Hart, in his (1973) article “Problems of Time: An Essay,” attempts to steer a middle course between Dooyeweerd and Vollenhoven. However, Hart did not sufficiently take into account that temporality is primarily continuous succession in duration and continuous duration in succession. Nor has he been able to come to terms with the root of cosmic time.
Herman Dooyeweerd从顺序的角度来看待时间。相比之下，德克·沃尔伦霍文认为时间是不断变化和形成的。亨德里克·哈特(Hendrik Hart)在他1973年的文章《时间的问题:一篇随笔》(Problems of Time: An Essay)中，试图在Dooyeweerd和Vollenhoven之间找到一条中间路线。然而，Hart没有充分考虑到暂时性主要是持续时间上的连续继承和连续时间上的连续继承。他也无法就宇宙时间的根源达成协议。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-26DOI: 10.1163/23528230-BJA10022
K. Bekkum
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Pub Date : 2020-12-29DOI: 10.1163/23528230-bja10013
Menno R. Kamminga
The late influential American intellectual Michael Novak was a self-declared devotee of Reinhold Niebuhr, arguably the foremost twentieth-century American theologian. Novak’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982) was an attempt to fill the political-economic lacuna in Niebuhr’s thought. The present article offers a Niebuhrian irony–focused response to Novak’s democratic capitalism in view of climate change as probably the greatest threat facing humanity. Novak quite successfully extended Niebuhrian ideas into a theology-based vision of democratic capitalism as the only political-economic system effective in widely lifting people out of poverty. Yet he failed to acknowledge human-induced climate change as beyond reasonable doubt and rooted in the predominantly American invention of a fossil energy–based capitalist political economy. This article’s thesis is that Novak’s democratic capitalism entails Niebuhrian irony: the virtue it displays about resources becomes a vice due to Novak’s irresponsible post–Spirit of Democratic Capitalism attempt to represent democratic capitalism as innocent of any dangerous climate-change implications.
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