Dooyeweerd's Contributions to scholarship
- He elaborated his ideas in De Wijsbegeerte
der Wetsidee (Amsterdam: 1935/36),
now translated with amendments and
published in the four-volume A New
Critique of Theoretical Thought (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: 1957/58, 1969; Lewiston:
1997). This masterpiece of systematic
philosophical reflection ranks him as a
leading philosopher of the 20th century.
- He applied a historical orientation and
systematic insights to his own area of
specialization - jurisprudence or the
science of law: its history, concepts, and
differentiation into public, private and
civil law.
- His philosophy offers tools of analysis to
open up many other fields of the special
sciences in fresh ways, avoiding the
reductions and antinomies of non-biblical
approaches.
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