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Zuidervaart, LambertAffiliation
Institute for Christian StudiesIssue Date
2008-08
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Unfinished Business: Toward a Reformational Conception of TruthDooyeweerd's Conception of Truth: Exposition and Critique
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A transformed idea of truth is central to the project of reformational philosophy. This paper lays groundwork for such an idea by critically retrieving Herman Dooyeweerd’s conception of truth. Section 1 explicates relevant passages in A New Critique of Theoretical Thought. Section 2 demonstrates several problems in Dooyeweerd’s conception: he misconstrues religious truth, misconceives its relation to theoretical truth, and overlooks central questions of epistemology and truth theory. Section 3 proposes an alternative reformational conception of truth, in five stages. First I compare my “critical hermeneutics” with other reformational models of critique. Then I summarize my account of artistic truth and indicate its origins in reformational ontology. Next I sketch my general conception of truth and show how it responds to issues in Dooyeweerd’s conception. Then I take up the topics of objectivity and propositional truth. Finally I introduce the notion of “authentication” as a way to appropriate insights from Dooyeweerd’s emphasis on “standing in the Truth.” While abandoning his idea of transcendent truth, I seek to preserve the holism and normativity of Dooyeweerd’s radical conception.Citation
Zuidervaart, Lambert. "After Dooyeweerd: Truth in Reformational Philosophy." Toronto: Institute for Christian Studies, 2008. Accessed November 11, 2013 from http://ir.icscanada.edu/icsir/handle/10756/305241Type
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This paper is the long version or “director’s cut” of two essays published by the journal Philosophia Reformata under the titles “Dooyeweerd’s Conception of Truth: Exposition and Critique” and “Unfinished Business: Toward a Reformational Conception of Truth.” First drafted in the summer of 2007, the paper was revised in the summer of 2008 after the two journal articles were accepted for publication.Rights
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