TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dooyeweerd,H.
TI  - In the twilight of western thought: studies in the pretended autonomy of philosophical thought 
T2  - University series: philosophical studies
AV  - B53.D691.I584 1968 
PY  - 1960///
CY  - Nutley, New Jersey
PB  - Craig Press
KW  - Philosophy-Ancient
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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; 1b; b
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