'n Werkgroep vir teologie, filosofie en ander vakdissiplines
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Du Plessis, Pieter Gert Wessel
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Die voorstel dat ’n werkgroep tussen teoloë, filosowe en ander
vakspesialiste op die been gebring word, hang nou saam met
die insig dat grondslaekwessies in alle fakulteite en studierigtings
bestaan. Die skrywer beweeg weg van die onderskeid
dat teologie “sakrale geloofswetenskap” en filosofie “sekulêre
rasionele diskoers” is. Teologie en filosofie kan nie sonder “geloof”
en grondslaekwessies beoefen word nie. Daarom kan
bona fides en grondslaekwessies interdissiplinêr deurlopend in
’n werkgroep aandag kry.
Vanuit die meerdimensionele opset van wetenskap (empiriese,
metodologiese en dimensies van metakwessies) beredeneer
die skrywer dat wetenskaplike dissiplines simbioties aan grondslaekwessies
verbind is.
Beperkings en voordele van logiese, transendentale en transformasionele
kritiek word gebruik om opsetlike samewerking
tussen betrokke vakgeleerdes te bevorder oor gemeenskaplike
sake en oor nodige én onwenslike verskille tussen die dissiplines.
Verskeie aannames kom ter sprake, soos dat die eie vakrigting
nie alles oor sogenaamde gemeenskaplike kwessies te sê het
nie; dat die onderskeie vakgenote by mekaar kan leer; dat
Christelike teologie nié ’n Christelike denke in ander dissiplines
soos taalwetenskappe en filosofie oorbodig maak nie.
Vakspesialiste verarm hulleself indien hulle ontslae wil raak van
hulle vak-inherente grondslaekwessies, daaroor swyg of dit aan
filosowe afstaan.
The proposal to start a workshop among theologians, philosophers and other specialists is connected to the view that foundational issues exist in every faculty and in every field of study. A distinction between theology as “divinity knowledge” and philosophy as “secular rational discourse” is set aside by explaining that both theology and philosophy are “sciences of faith”. Not one single discipline is without its bona fides and its foundational issues. Hence, the suggestion to pay continual attention to foundational issues in theology, philosophy and other concerned disciplines in an interdisciplinary workshop. Using the so-called multidimensional scope of science (empirical, methodological and dimension of meta-issues) the author argues that any scientific discipline is inextricably bound up with foundational issues. Some limitations and some advantages of scientific inquiries like logical critique, transcendental critique, and transforming of elements of truths serve as to deliberately further co-operation between specialists on common fundamental issues, on inadmissible/ undesirable differences and on indispensable diversity. Several assumptions are presented, for example one’s own specialist field does not have the final word about common issues; that various specialists can learn from one another; Christian theology does not render Christian scholarship redundant in other scientific disciplines such as languages or philosophy. Special disciplines deteriorate in scientific quality whenever specialists tend to get rid of their inherent foundational issues, tend to keep quiet about them, or pass them on to philosophers.
The proposal to start a workshop among theologians, philosophers and other specialists is connected to the view that foundational issues exist in every faculty and in every field of study. A distinction between theology as “divinity knowledge” and philosophy as “secular rational discourse” is set aside by explaining that both theology and philosophy are “sciences of faith”. Not one single discipline is without its bona fides and its foundational issues. Hence, the suggestion to pay continual attention to foundational issues in theology, philosophy and other concerned disciplines in an interdisciplinary workshop. Using the so-called multidimensional scope of science (empirical, methodological and dimension of meta-issues) the author argues that any scientific discipline is inextricably bound up with foundational issues. Some limitations and some advantages of scientific inquiries like logical critique, transcendental critique, and transforming of elements of truths serve as to deliberately further co-operation between specialists on common fundamental issues, on inadmissible/ undesirable differences and on indispensable diversity. Several assumptions are presented, for example one’s own specialist field does not have the final word about common issues; that various specialists can learn from one another; Christian theology does not render Christian scholarship redundant in other scientific disciplines such as languages or philosophy. Special disciplines deteriorate in scientific quality whenever specialists tend to get rid of their inherent foundational issues, tend to keep quiet about them, or pass them on to philosophers.
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Du Plessis, P.G.W. 2011. 'n Werkgroep vir teologie, filosofie en ander vakdissiplines. In die Skriflig/In luce Verbi, 45(2&3):307-327. [http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ids.v45i2&3.17]