DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-K108-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 28, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/dooyeweerd-herman-1894-1977/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 28, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/dooyeweerd-herman-1894-1977/v-1
Article Summary
A Dutch philosopher and legal theorist, Herman Dooyeweerd challenged the Enlightenment ideal of autonomous rational thought and sought a religious foundation for philosophy. Religious self-knowledge, he contended, is the necessary condition of all knowing. Dooyeweerd proposed an elaborate ontology of physical and social reality based on the Christian doctrine of creation. His thought has been influential among Calvinists in The Netherlands, North America and South Africa.
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