The Transcendental Critique Revisited and Revised
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ofThe Transcendental Critique Revisited and Revised Dooyeweerd’s account of abstraction is examined and found to be faulty. He holds that abstract thinkingisolates aspects which must then be synthesized, whereas I argue that we cannot isolate any aspect from the othershowever so hard we try. But our very inability to isolate aspects is then turned into an alternative version of atranscendental critique of theory making. Instead of asking for a basis for synthesizing aspects we have isolated, the newversion asks: what is the nature of the aspectual connectedness which is so strong that it cannot be interrupted even byabstraction? I argue that it is impossible for anyone to understand the meaning of a concept without taking a position onthis issue, whether that is done implicitly or explicitly. Moreover, every answer to this question presupposes a divinitybelief. Hence, this recasting of the critique yields a demonstration of the religious regulation of all concepts and everytheory. In this way the goal of Dooyeweerd’s critique is achieved, even if not in the way he envisioned.
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