Unfinished Business: Toward a Reformational Conception of Truth
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Authors
Zuidervaart, Lambert
Issue Date
2009
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Article
Language
en
Keywords
Truth , Dooyeweerd, Herman , Reformational philosophy , Societal principles , Heidegger, Martin , Authentication
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Abstract
This essay presents an emerging conception of truth and shows how it appropriates Herman Dooyeweerd’s conception. First I compare my “critical hermeneutics” with other reformational models of critique. Then I propose to think of truth as a dynamic correlation between (1) human fidelity to societal principles and (2) a life-giving disclosure of society. This conception recontextualizes the notion of propositional truth, and it links questions of intersubjective validity with 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.
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Zuidervaart, Lambert. "Unfinished Business: Toward a Reformational Conception of Truth." Philosophia Reformata, 74 (2009): 1-20
Publisher
Association for Reformational Philosophy
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Philosophia Reformata
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0031-8035