In the twilight of western thought : studies in the pretended autonomy of philosophical thought / [print]
Herman Dooyeweerd.
- Nutley, New Jersey : Craig Press, (c)1960.
- xvi, 195 pages ; 20 cm.
- University series: philosophical studies .
CHAPTER ONE: A CRITIQUE OF THEORETICAL THOUGHT. The necessity of a radical critique of theoretical thought -- a) The contemporary crisis in philosophy -- b) The structural necessity for a critique of theoretical autonomy -- c) Transcendental versus transcendent critique -- Analysis of the theoretical attitude -- a) Modal aspects of our experience of reality -- b) The diversity of modal aspects within time -- A transcendental critique of theoretical thought -- a) First problem: the coherence of diverse modal aspects (theoretical antithesis) -- b) Second problem: the relation between theoretical and naïve experience (theoretical synthesis) -- c) Third problem: the origin of the ego CHAPTER TWO: THE CONCENTRIC CHARATER OF THE SELF. The enigmatic character of the self -- The self's relation to others: intersubjectivity -- The religious relation to the Origin of the self -- a) The structural religious tendency of the self -- b) The religious basic motive -- c) The dialectical character of non-biblical ground motives -- Outline of religious basic motives of western thought -- a) Greek form-matter motive -- b) The radical biblical motive -- c) The scholastic nature-grace motive -- d) The humanistic nature-freedom motive -- The limits and possibility of philosophical dialogue -- a) The transcendence of the world -- b) The basis for philosophical dialogue CHAPTER THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORICISM. Historicism as an absolutization of the historical aspect -- The origins of historicism in modem philosophy -- The dialectical tension in modem humanism -- a) The primacy of nature: Descartes, Hobbes and Leibniz -- b) The primacy of freedom: Locke, Rousseau and Kant -- c) A dialectical synthesis: post-Kantian idealism -- Radical historicism: from Comte to Dilthey to Spengler CHAPTER FOUR: HISTORICISM, HISTORY, AND THE HISTORICAL ASPECT. The relation of the historical aspect and other modes of experience -- a) Historicism's absolutization of the historical aspect -- b) Delimitation of the historical aspect -- c) The nuclear meaning of the historical aspect -- Anticipations and retrocipations in the notion of 'development' -- The normative criterion for determining 'development': differentiation -- a) The unfolding process -- b) Individuality-structures -- Faith and culture CHAPTER FIVE: PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY, AND RELIGION. The relation between philosophy and theology: a historical survey -- a) The Augustinian tradition -- b) The Thomistic tradition -- c) Barth -- Religion: the supratheoretical knowledge of God -- Theology and the critique of theoretical thought CHAPTER SIX: THE OBJECT AND TASK OF THEOLOGY. The object of theology as a theoretical science -- a) The scientific character of theology -- b) The transcendence of religious commitment and the limits of theology -- c) God's revelations and the possibility of theology -- Faith and the relationship between nature and grace -- a) Scholastic dualism -- b) Barth's dualism -- The relation between the Scriptures and the Word-revelation -- a) The Scriptures as a temporal manifestation of the Word-revelation -- b) Religious commitment and the articles of faith -- The relation and distinction between theology and Christian philosophy -- a) Their shared basic-motive and distinct fields -- b) The philosophical foundations of theology -- c) A radically Christian philosophy as the only foundation for a Christian theology CHAPTER SEVEN. REFORMATION AND SCHOLASTICISM IN THEOLOGY. The grounding of scholasticism in non-biblical basic motives -- a) Dialectical tensions -- b) Attempted solutions -- The Greek foundations of scholasticism -- a) The matter-motive in Greek religion -- b) The form-motive in Greek religion -- c) Dialectical tensions within the Greek religious basic-motive -- The scholastic appropriation of the Greek basic-motive CHAPTER 8: WHAT IS MAN? The crisis of Western civilization and the twilight of western thought -- The meaning of the self -- a) The transcendence of the self -- b) A critique of existentialism -- c) The meaning of the self in its religious relation to the Origin -- Word-revelation and the biblical basic-motive -- a) The theme of revelation: creation, fall, and redemption -- b) The radical sense of creation, fall, and redemption.