ABSTRACT
How do all those different aspects relate to one another? Are they connected? Can you get hold of them ‘separately’? Or is there a certain ‘unity’? In the last chapter we looked at the many-sidedness of reality. Dooyeweerd developed his philosophical view of that in the theory of modal aspects. Once again, we remind readers of the meaning of the word ‘modal’: it’s about different ways or manners of existence – about ‘how’ things exist. In this chapter we shall look into the question of coherence and unity in reality. It’s a fascinating question, precisely because each one of the aspects possesses a unique character and cannot be reduced to any other. In Dooyeweerd’s philosophy, the concepts of diversity, coherence and unity are closely related (Figure 4.1).
