PHL 228: Reformational Philosophy

From a purely historical point of view, Dooyeweerd for example writes, Humanism has done more for the recognition of public freedom for religious convictions than did seventeenth-century Calvinism. Particularly instructive in this work is Dooyeweerd's unveiling of the origin of the modern ideology of community at the beginning of the previous century and its subsequent effects in National-Socialism.

Provides a general characterization of the difference between theoretical and central religious dialectics, and then analyzes the dialectical development of pre-Platonic philosophy as motivated by the form-matter ground-motive. The book concludes with a discussion of Plato's thought.

Provides the reader with a suitable introduction to Dooyeweerd's philosophy, focused upon its critique of the modernist belief in the autonomy of theoretical thought.