Die betekenis van ’n radikaal skrif- matige filosofie vir die leyvens- praktyk

Abstract

[he author’s point of departure is founded on the reciprocation between practical life and Philosophy. He points out the centuries-old distinction and division between theory and practice and rejects it, seeing that it is man who “does thinkingly” and who “thinks while doing”. One’s view of the world, one cosmoscope (which is a nun-scientific vision on reality) constitutes a bridge between religion and Philosophy and can be strengthened after a scientific justification via Ontology from the field of theoretical knowledge. The relationship between Philosophy and practical life has to be determined from the angle of the religious unity of both. Prom this it emerges that practical and scientific knowledge do not differ in terms of worth of content, but only in terms of their own irreplaceable nature. Their basic relationship should then be typified in terms of reciprocal service.