A New Critique of Theoretical Thought,
Volume 1: The Necessary Presuppositions of Philosophy.
Details: 566pp. 3 parts. 11 chapters. 49 sub-parts.
Publisher: Amsterdam: Uitgeverij H.J. Paris / Philadelphia: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1953.
Translators: David Hugh Freeman (Wilson College) and William Young (Butler University).
Foreword (abbreviated) to the first (Dutch) edition, (pp. v - ix).
Foreword to the second (English) edition, (pp. x - xi).
Translator's preface, (pp. xii - xiv).
Contents, (pp. xv - xxxix).
Part 1: Prolegomena, (pp. 3 - 165).
Introduction – The First Way of a Transcendental Critique of Philosophical Thought, (pp. 3 - 21).
Chapter 1 – The Transcendenatal Criticism of Theoretical Thought and the Central Significance of the Transcendental Ground-Idea for Philosophy, (pp. 22 - 113, 10 parts).
Chapter 2 – Philosophy and Life- and World-View, (pp. 114 - 165, 6 parts).
Part II: The Development of the Basic Antinomy in the Cosmonomic Idea of Humanistic Immanence Philosophy, (pp. 165 - 495).
Chapter 1 – The Basic Structure of the Humanistic Transcendental Ground-Idea and the Intrinsic Polarity Between the Classical Science-Ideal and the Ideal of Personality, (pp. 169 - 215, 4 parts).
Chapter 2 – The Ideal of Personality and the Natural Science-Ideal in the First Types of Their Mutual Polar Tension Under the Primacy of The Former, (pp. 216 - 261, 5 parts).
Chapter 3 – The Ideal of Personality and the Ideal of Science in the Critical Transition to the Primacy of the Ideal of Personality, (pp. 262 - 324, 7 parts).
Chapter 4 – The Line of Demarcation Between the Ideals of Science and of Persoanlity in Kant. The (Critical) Dualist Idealistic Type-Of Transcendental Ground-Idea Under the Primacy of The Humanist Ideal of Personality, (pp. 325 - 402, 6 parts).
Chapter 5 – The Tension Between the Ideal of Science and That of Personality in the Identity-Philosophy of Post-Kantian Freedom-Idealism, (pp. 403 - 450, 3 parts).
Chapter 6 – The Victory of the Irrationalist Over the Rationalist Conception of the Humanistic Transcendental Ground-Idea. The Ideal of Personality in its Irrationalist Turn in the Philosophy of Life, (pp. 451 - 495, 3 parts).
Part III – Conclusion and Transition to the Development of the Positive Contents of the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea.
Chapter 1 - The Antithetical and Synthetical Standpoints in Christian Philosophical Thought, (pp. 499 - 527, 2 parts).
Chapter 2 - The Systematic Plan of our Further Investigations and a Closer Examination of the Relation of the Philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea to the Special Sciences, (pp. 528 - 566, 3 parts).