A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. Deel 1. The Necessary Presuppositions of Philosophy

(1969)–H. Dooyeweerd– Auteursrechtelijk beschermd

Inhoudsopgave Foreword (abreviated) to the first edition Foreword to the second (the English) edition Translators' preface Part I Prolegomena Introduction The first way of a transcendental critique of philosophic thought Chapter I The transcendental criticism of theoretical thought and the central significance of the transcendental ground-idea for philosophy Chapter II Philosophy and life- and world-view Part II The development of the basic antinomy in the cosmonomic idea of humanistic immanence-philosophy Chapter I The basic structure of the humanistic transcendental ground-idea and the intrinsic polarity between the classical science-ideal and the ideal of personality Chapter II The ideal of personality and the natural science-ideal in the first types of their mutual polar tension under the primacy of the former Chapter III The ideal of personality and the ideal of science in the critical transition to the primacy of the ideal of personality Chapter IV The line of demarcation between the ideals of science and of personality in Kant. The (critical) dualist idealistic type of transcendental ground-idea under the primacy of the humanist ideal of personality Chapter V The tension between the ideal of science and that of personality in the identity-philosophy of post-Kantian freedom-idealism Chapter VI The victory of the irrationalist over the rationalist conception of the humanistic transcendental ground-idea. The ideal of personality in its irrationalist turn in the philosophy of life Part III Conclusion and transition to the development of the positive contents of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea Chapter I The antithetical and synthetical standpoints in christian philosophical thought Chapter II The systematic plan of our further investigations and a closer examination of the relation of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea to the special sciences