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The critical theory of Herman Dooyeweerd?

Basden, A

Authors

A Basden



Abstract

Jürgen Habermas is a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas have formed the philosophic foundation of critical systems thinking (CST). But can the Critical approach incorporate ideas from other thinkers without abandoning its Habermasian roots? The danger of adding ideas piecemeal to address specific difficulties in CST is that the whole will eventually collapse because of inconsistencies. So if we wish to import ideas from other thinkers we need to understand the points of agreement and disagreement with critical theory. This requires reference to a set of criteria, though not necessarily in any rigid way. This paper applies a set of criteria to a philosophic framework of ideas (that of the Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd) in order not to 'score' the ideas for Criticality, but rather to understand the process of bringing the ideas of a thinker from a different tradition to bear on the Critical approach in a commensurable way.

Citation

Basden, A. (2002). The critical theory of Herman Dooyeweerd?. Journal of Information Technology, 17(4), 257-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268396022000017770

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Dec 1, 2002
Deposit Date Dec 23, 2008
Journal Journal of Information Technology
Print ISSN 0268-3962
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 17
Issue 4
Pages 257-269
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0268396022000017770
Publisher URL http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rjit/2002/00000017/00000004/art00007