Vollenhoven's Problem-Historical Method: Introduction and Explorations - Softcover

Bril, Kornelis A.

 
9780932914606: Vollenhoven's Problem-Historical Method: Introduction and Explorations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0932914608 ISBN 13: 9780932914606
Publisher: Dordt College Press, 2005

Synopsis

Brill gives a concise overview of the Dutch philosopher Dirk Vollenhoven's problem-historical method and its influence on Reformational philosophy. Bril first highlights changing historical periods, including the internalizing or subjectivizing of the norms lying outside of, or behind, the cosmos. Part Two reviews four models of historiography, namely those of Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Michel Foucault, Thomas Kuhn, and Vollenhoven. Then he explains Vollenhoven's distinctions between the so-called "types" or ontologies as different traditions of thought. Part Four gets at the question, "What must I do?" Philosophers over the course of time have answered this question differently and taken different positions regarding the pertinent norms and criteria. Bril considers the place of religion and time-currents in this process.

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Publisher
Dordt College Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0932914608
ISBN 13 
9780932914606
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
124
Editor
Kok John H.