Editing Herman Dooyeweerd (section)

{{Short description|Dutch Neo-Calvinist philosopher}}
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|influences=[[Abraham Kuyper]], [[Edmund Husserl]], [[neo-Kantianism]] ([[Marburg school]], [[Ernst Cassirer]]), [[Franz Xaver von Baader]] (debated)
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| region           = [[Western philosophy]]
| era              = [[20th-century philosophy]] 
| image            = Dooyeweerd.jpg
| caption          = Dooyeweerd, {{circa|1930}}
| name             = Herman Dooyeweerd 
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1894|11|07}}
| birth_place      = [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1977|02|12|1894|11|07}}
| death_place      = [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
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| school_tradition =  [[Reformational philosophy]], [[Continental philosophy]], [[Neo-Calvinism]]
|notable_ideas=[[Modal aspects]],[[Meaning-oriented philosophy]],[[Religious ground motive]]
|influenced=[[D. H. Th. Vollenhoven|Dirk Vollenhoven]], [[Jan Peter Balkenende]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Van Raak |first1=Ronald |title=Afscheid van filosoof Balkenende |url= https://www.parlement.com/id/vijv8pbgkprz/nieuws/afscheid_van_filosoof_balkenende?ctx=vgfy1fxrgtrr&tab=1&start_tab0=325 |website= Parlement.com |access-date= 15 July 2023}}</ref> [[Roy Clouser]], [[H. Evan Runner]], [[Ab Klink]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=De Jong |first1=Piet H. |title=Dooyeweerdianen overheersen in kabinet |url= https://www.nd.nl/nieuws/politiek/702458/dooyeweerdianen-overheersen-in-kabinet |website= Nederlands Dagblad |date= 15 February 2007 |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref>}}
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'''Herman Dooyeweerd''', also spelled '''Herman Dooijeweerd''' (7 October 1894, Amsterdam – 12 February 1977, Amsterdam), was a professor of law and [[jurisprudence]] at the [[VU University Amsterdam|Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam]] from 1926 to 1965. He was also a philosopher and principal founder of [[Reformational philosophy]]{{Efn | Several names for Dooyeweerd's system have appeared over the last few decades. His original ''De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee'' (3 vols., Amsterdam: H.J. Paris, 1935–6) translates as "The Philosophy of the Law-Idea". However, Dooyeweerd wrote in his later ''New Critique of Theoretical Thought'' that the "best English term corresponding to it seems to be ‘cosmonomic Idea’, since the word ‘law’ used without further specification would evoke a special juridical sense which, of course, cannot be meant here" (NC I, 93). While this phrase has been popular among Dooyeweerd scholars, some have also used the phrase "law framework philosophy", such as [[Roy Clouser]]{{Sfn | Clouser | 2005}}{{Sfn | Clouser | 2010}} and Adolfo García de la Sienra Guajardo{{Sfn | García de la Sienra | 2010}}.}} (with his brother-in-law [[D. H. Th. Vollenhoven|Dirk Vollenhoven]]{{Efn | While many Dooyeweerd scholars believe Dooyeweerd's thought to be compatible with that of Vollenhoven{{Sfn | Wolters | 1985}}, others have cast doubt on such a view{{Sfn | Friesen | 2005}}.}}), a significant development within the [[Neo-Calvinism|Neo-Calvinist]] (or Kuyperian) school of thought. Dooyeweerd made several contributions to philosophy and other academic disciplines concerning: the nature of diversity and coherence in everyday experience; the transcendental conditions for theoretical thought; the relationship between religion, philosophy, and scientific theory; and an understanding of meaning, being, time and self.

Dooyeweerd is most famous for his suite of fifteen aspects (or 'modalities', 'modal aspects', or 'modal law-spheres') of reality.  These are distinct ways in which reality exists, has meaning, is experienced, and occurs. This suite of aspects is finding application in practical analysis, research and teaching in such diverse fields as built environment, sustainability, agriculture, business, information systems and development.{{sfn|Strauss|2015}}