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In the Twilight of Western Thought: Studies in the Pretended Autonomy of Philosophical Thought (University Series: Philosophical Studies)

by Herman Dooyeweerd (Author)
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4.0 out of 5 starsgetting the worldview debate started
By Jacob on October 14, 2012
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Dooyeweerd's thesis is that all attempts of doing philosophy apart from religious presuppositions are futile. Dooyeweerd exposes the would-be autonomy of modern man and traces the problem back to the Greeks. He examines aspects of the history of philosophy through the grid of Creation-Fall-ReCreation in Jesus Christ. In this I will attempt to highlight the most helpful aspects of Dooyeweerd's thoughts and end with a few criticisms and points of clarification.

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Man's roots are essentially religious. There is not an area of life divorced from religious presuppositions. All worldviews[i] have a starting point. The consistent Christian starting point will be the living God who reveals himself; the alternative to this is man as the starting point and this position is autonomy. Dooyeweerd shows that man's attempts at knowledge and doing philosophy from an autonomous base self-destruct. For man, having established his starting point with himself, can never rise above himself to offer a critique of his system. In short, he is absolutized the relative. He is guilty of "immanentist" philosophy. Dooyeweerd writes, "For this view [autonomy] implies that the ultimate starting point of philosophy should be found in this thought [theoretical?] itself. But due to the lack of a univocal sense, the pretended autonomy cannot guarantee a common basis to the different philosophical trends" (3). In other words, if man posits his own rationality as the starting point for knowledge, then he is left with the unbearable strain that he himself can account for all knowledge. In short, given his premises, to know anything he must know everything. And here is the straw that breaks the camel's back--he doesn't know everything and if he still maintains his original position, he cannot know anything!Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA MORE ACCESSIBLE "INTRODUCTION" TO THE DUTCH CALVINIST PHILOSOPHER'S THOUGHT
By Steven H Propp TOP 100 REVIEWER on September 13, 2013
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Herman Dooyeweerd was a Dutch philosopher and juridical scholar; he wrote other books such as A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The Necessary Presuppositions of Philosophy, Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy Vol. 1, Roots Of Western Culture, etc.

Rousas Rushdoony wrote in the Introduction to this 1960 book, "Central to Dooyeweerd's position is the insistence that truly Christian philosophy can alone be critical, and that non-Christian philosophy is inevitably dogmatical. Basic to all non-Christian philosophies are certain far-reaching pre-theoretical commitments or presuppositions which are bascially religious. Man assumes the self-suficiency and autonomy of his philosophical thought. He makes God relative, and his thought, or some aspect of creation, absolute. As a result of this attitude, man, in his pretended autonomy, immediately finds that, not only is the world of everyday experience a problem, but that he is a problem to himself." (Pg. vii-viii)

Dooyeweerd says, "The mystery of the central human ego is that it is nothing in itself, i.e., viewed apart from the central relations wherein alone it presents itself. But the first of these relations, namely, that of selfhood to the temporal horizon of our experience cannot determine the inner character of the ego, except in a negative sense.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA MORE ACCESSIBLE "INTRODUCTION" TO THE DUTCH CALVINIST PHILOSOPHER'S THOUGHT
By Steven H Propp TOP 100 REVIEWER on September 13, 2013
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Herman Dooyeweerd was a Dutch philosopher and juridical scholar; he wrote other books such as A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: The Necessary Presuppositions of Philosophy, Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy Vol. 1, Roots Of Western Culture, etc.

Rousas Rushdoony wrote in the Introduction to this 1960 book, "Central to Dooyeweerd's position is the insistence that truly Christian philosophy can alone be critical, and that non-Christian philosophy is inevitably dogmatical.l basic to all non-Christian philosophies are certain far-reaching pre-theoretical commitments or presuppositions which are bascially religious. Man assumes the self-suficiency and autonomy of his philosophical thought. He makes God relative, and his thought, or some aspect of creation, absolute. As a result of this attitude, man, in his pretended autonomy, immediately finds that, not only is the world of everyday experience a problem, but that he is a problem to himself." (Pg. vii-viii)

Dooyeweerd says, "The mystery of the central human ego is that it is nothing in itself, i.e., viewed apart from the central relations wherein alone it presents itself. But the first of these relations, namely, that of selfhood to the temporal horizon of our experinence cannot determine the inner character of the ego, except in a negative sense.Read more ›
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