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A New Critique of Theoretical Thought: Four Volumes

Volume III

Analyzes the structure of individual totalities, i.e. things, processes and societal institutions and relationships that in principle function in all the modal aspects of reality discussed in Volume II. In this volume Dooyeweerd accounts for the idea of an entity that cannot be described exhaustively through the gateway of any abstracted aspect in which it has a function. The idea of an individual whole (technically designated as an individuality-structure) as it is given in our concrete everyday experience precedes its theoretical analysis. Once again Dooyeweerd introduces a radically new insight by distinguishing between what he calls the basic function (foundational function) and the guiding function (qualifying function) of structures of individuality. The scope of this analysis cuts through all existing academic disciplines. Natural things, living entities, the human being, human society (undifferentiated societies and a comprehensive structural analysis of the state, church , family, marriage and difference forms of interlacement within a differentiated society) as well as objectified things in nature and culture are treated. These three volumes actually serve to lay the foundation for his three volume work on the nature of being human, i.e. his philosophical anthropology, as it is developed in Reformation and Scholasticism in Philosophy (description below).

ISBN: 0-7734-8711-5

Pages: 784

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