The Dooyeweerd Pages
The Dooyeweerd Pages is a growing website designed to aid scholars in understanding the philosophical framework of the late Herman Dooyeweerd -
"The most profound, innovative and penetrating philosopher since Kant."
(Giorgio Delvecchio).
Come to this website if you want to:
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Structure of Site:
- Top level - over 100 pages introducing Dooyeweerd's philosophy.
What Do You Want To Do?
- Understanding Dooyeweerd's Thought:
Perhaps you wanted ... Themed Outline of Dooyeweerd's Main Ideas?
If not, the following look at Dooyeweerd's thought as a whole.
- Applying Dooyeweerd's Thought:
A growing collection of pages discussing how Dooyeweerd's thought could be used, for example:
Also:
- Links with Other Thinkers:
- Comparisons with other thinkers or streams of thinking -
Alexander,
von Baader,
Bernstein,
Bhaskar,
Buber,
Bunge,
Checkland (SSM),
Foucault,
Giddens,
Grounded Theory,
Habermas,
Hartmann,
Heidegger,
Latour,
Parsons,
Polanyi,
Searle,
systems theory,
Vigotsky,
Wenger's 'Communities of Practice',
and others, even H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.
- A tabular comparison of Dooyeweerd's suite of aspects with those of others, including Maslow, Checkland, Hartmann, Bunge, Habermas, Wilenius, Boulding, kierkegaard, the categories used in Roget's Thesaurus and Encyclopedia Britannica, and others.
- Ahead of his time - a number of ways in which Dooyeweerdian thinking seems to be emerging as the new thinking of today.
- A selection of academic papers that seek to apply Dooyeweerdian thought in various disciplines or areas of thought.
- Main roots of Dooyeweerd's thought (pages yet to be written)
- Directional Roots in Kuyper, ARP and Dutch Reformed Church
- Theological Roots in Calvin the Thinker and Augustine
- Existential Roots in Heidegger
- Methodological Roots in Kant
- Critique of Dooyeweerd's Thought:
- Benefits and Limitations of Dooyeweerd's Thought
- Who was Herman Dooyeweerd?
- Sundry Supporting Pages:
The following provide direct links to some areas of Dooyeweerd's philosophical framework that provide new and useful perspectives on issues that face us. If you cannot find what you want here, try another List of Topics, that has more detail over a narrower scope.
"All else is a footnote to Plato" wrote A.N. Whitehead. Most Western thought since then has made similar presuppositions to those the ancient Greeks made. Dooyeweerd questioned them ...
Perhaps the best-known of Dooyeweerd's ideas. A philosophically sound basis for diversity and coherence, and for interdisciplinarity. But much more than that.
Dooyeweerd says two things about being human: multi-aspectual functioning, and the human ego, selfhood or heart. He accounts for human life, needs, potential, etc. by reference to multi-aspect functioning, and thereby avoids Platonism, Scholasticism and mysticism.
But he also posits a supra-aspectual human ego or selfhood, and thereby avoids functionalism.
Dooyeweerd "made the structure of theoretical thought transparent" (Klapwijk, 1991) - as well as other types of thinking and knowledge ...
To Dooyeweerd, norms are basic and enable rather than constrain. Pages only started ...
- Ethics - a summary of Dooyeweerd's approach to ethical issues and how it relates to half a dozen traditional theories of ethics (deontology, axiology, teleology, linguistics, existentialism, phenomenonology)
- On Virtue - how Dooyeweerd can address many issues that have arisen over the last 2,500 years.
- Some notes on Normativity - How determinism and freedom can come together.
- The Shalom Hypothesis - A key to understanding multiple factors in success and failure. (brief overview)
If meaning is primary, then entities (incl. systems, activities, events, etc.) gain their existence from aspectual functioning:
Like Heidegger, Dooyeweerd tried to work out what Time is. He concluded that time is the 'bottom layer' of created reality, and that the religious humen self transends time.
Dooyeweerd made an in-depth critique of theoretical thinking over 2,500 years, and held that thinking is founded on presupposition (and in doing so pefigured much of the most recent post-positivist thought of people like Polanyi and Habermas). This major part of his thought is as yet poorly represented here, but will be added later.
Dooyeweerd was convinced that philosophy, even that undertaken by Christian thinkers, had been antithetic to the Biblical worldview. He tried to find out the root of this antithesis, and to construct a new style of 'Christian' philosophy.
Here are links to other portions of Dooyeweerd's thought.
Copyright (c) Andrew Basden 2000-today.
Comments, queries welcome.
Number of visitors to these pages: 
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Last updated: 9 April 2000 this new version first compiled. 10 August 2000 links page. 4 October 2000 Some rearrangement of the second half, and link to history. 7 February 2001 copyright, email. 14 February 2001 counter. 14 February 2001 new link to subject-object duality. 20 May 2001 new drawer for external thinking. 19 September 2001 link to examples drawer. 18 October 2001 new links to social.theory and interviews. 9 November 2001 new link to dooy.ahead. 22 February 2002 new links to ext/choi and papers/. 27 February 2002 Corrected name. 28 February 2002 new link: virtue. 1 March 2002 rearranged a couple of links. 10 June 2002 Link to modifying.html. 3 July 2002 small intro sentence added. 2 August 2002 link to On Existence and Multi-aspectual fning. 17 September 2002 tidied up, new links, esp to ThinkNet; ext/ links better. 18 September 2002 link to new d4p. 20 November 2002 revamped links to major topics in Dooyeweerd, adding some more, removed link to orig.index.html. 6 January 2003 link to entities.html. 18 February 2003 link to truth.html. 27 February 2003 link to enkapsis.html, new title for overview. 1 March 2003 New pages on Ground Motives. 4 March 2003 religion link. 7 March 2003 Link to progress.html new file; dooy.xn.html revamped. Links re. postmodernism. 16 April 2003 links to human, self, slight restructuring of initial parts with What's New links. 16 May 2003 link to hd.html page. 19 May 2003 re-grouped the main part, for ease of reader orientation; in part II repl. Meaning by 'Diffnt flavour' and moved first. 23 September 2003 Dooyeweerd's theory of time. 23 October 2003 stories. 14 November 2003 link ffuis. 12 March 2004 new link to andrew.html, link to MAKE. 13 April 2004 some 'strongs' removed. 15 June 2004 New: Bhaskar and 2sides; made specific links to 'ext' thinkers. 14 August 2004 link to defence strategy and to ps; rid some old news. 23 August 2004 Apel, crit new. 14 September 2004 Links to law, creator; some rearrangement of main topics. 24 December 2004 WhoWas is heading. 30 December 2004 nc-wdw. 1 April 2005 link to suite.html. 14 April 2005 minor changes. 22 April 2005 new page 'Everyday'. 4 May 2005 ethics. 9 May 2005 Religious root discussion; links to Voll and the.man. 11 May 2005 New visual form: two boxes at start; relabelled thent,th.asp as theory.ent/asp. 25 May 2005 link to anticipation. 28 May 2005 New intro. 11 July 2005 slight rearrangement of starting links and overview, new spinoza. 3 October 2005 Bunge link. 19 June 2006 'new'. 24 June 2006 link Hirst. 23 August 2006 link to analogy. 31 March 2007 links to bhaskar and compare.asp. 14 August 2007 link to bk/. 24 November 2007 aspanal, and rem'd 'new' links. 5 January 2008 pomo. 9 February 2008 absolutization. 19 March 2008 asp.neighbours. 22 May 2008 roots, and slight alterations of wording. 21 July 2008 rationality, benefits. 14 September 2008 link to compare.asp. 23 October 2008 using/ben.det.anal. 28 November 2008 a few more links; value proposition in 'worth'. 16 December 2008 link larkrise. 29 January 2009 some rearrangement of contents, and also making clearer the route to using/ etc. 30 January 2009 more rearrangements to make page easier to use; added site structure. 7 March 2009 asp.neighbours as 'WLA'. 30 April 2009 xp. 16 June 2009 nonaspl. 4 August 2009 examples/maspl. 13 August 2009 time: easy table. 3 September 2009 name 'table'. 23 November 2009 wenger link. 28 January 2010 recommendations. 4 May 2010 slight tidying. 10 May 2010 aspects.aspects.html. 17 June 2010 using/use.in.phy, and small inner bullets. 23 June 2010 issues/indiv.soc. 10 July 2010 Bernstein.