Hendrik Hart
{{Short description|Dutch-Canadian philosopher (1935–2021)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|12|14}}
| birth_place = Netherlands
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|03|15|1935|12|14}}
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| nationality = {{hlist | Dutch | Canadian}}
| other_names = Henk Hart
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| alma_mater = Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
| thesis_title = Communal Certainty and Authorized Truth{{cite thesis |last=Hart |first=Hendrik |year=1966 |title=Communal Certainty and Authorized Truth: An Examination of John Dewey's Philosophy of Verification |type=dissertation |oclc=1069393151}}
| thesis_year = 1966
| school_tradition = Reformational philosophy
| doctoral_advisor = S. U. Zuidema
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- John Dewey
- Herman Dooyeweerd
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- H. Evan Runner{{cite newsletter |last=Vandenberg |first=Natasha |date=June 2001 |title=ICS Honours H. Evan Runner |work=Perspective |volume=35 |issue=3 |location=Toronto |publisher=Institute for Christian Studies |page=1 |hdl=10756/277682 |hdl-access=free |issn=0847-0324}}
- D. H. Th. Vollenhoven
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| discipline = Philosophy
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| doctoral_students = Ronald A. Kuipers
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| main_interests = Systematic philosophy
| notable_works = Understanding Our World (1984)
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Hendrik Hart (December 14, 1935 – March 15, 2021), often known as Henk Hart, was a Dutch-Canadian philosopher based in Toronto.{{Cite journal|last=Olthuis|first=James|author-link=James Olthuis|date=2002|title=Introduction|journal=Philosophy as Responsibility: A Celebration of Hendrik Hart's Contribution to the Discipline|pages=x-xxiii}}{{Cite news|last=Arnold|first=Gordon|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/481334339/|title=Radical Christian Institute 'Shakes Up Social Traditions|date=March 28, 1970|work=The Calgary Herald|page=20}}{{cite web |url=http://news.icscanada.edu/2021/03/in-memoriam-hendrik-hart.html |title = ICS News: In Memoriam: Hendrik Hart}}
History
Hendrik Hart taught systematic philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, since its founding in 1967 until his retirement in 2001.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QYZkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5n8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=3010,2425388&dq=hendrik-hart+philosophy&hl=en|title=Scientific Dogma' Assailed By Religious Philosopher|date=August 26, 1968|work=The Calgary Herald|access-date=22 September 2011}} Prior to that he was head of the philosophical Institute of the Free University in Amsterdam, where he studied under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. His doctoral dissertation was written on the topic of John Dewey's theory of verification and was supervised by Dutch philosopher S. U. Zuidema.
Hendrik Hart was an emeritus professor at the Institute for Christian Studies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.icscanada.edu/about/story|title=Our Story - Institute for Christian Studies Official Website|website=www.icscanada.edu|access-date=2020-03-18}} He died on March 15, 2021.{{cite web |url=http://news.icscanada.edu/2021/03/in-memoriam-hendrik-hart.html |title = ICS News: In Memoriam: Hendrik Hart}}
Bibliography
- Hart, Hendrik; K. A. Bril; and Jacob Klapwijk (editors) The Idea of a Christian philosophy: Essays in Honour of D H Th Vollenhoven (Toronto: Wedge, 1973)
- Hart, Hendrik. Setting our sights by the Morning Star (1989)
- Hart, Hendrik. Understanding Our World (Lanham, Maryland, USA: University Press of America, 1984; 2002).
- Hart, Hendrik; Johan Van Der Hoeven; and Nicolas Wolterstorff (editors) Rationality in the Calvinian Tradition (University Press of America, 1984)
- Hart, Hendrik; and Kai Nielsen. The Search for Community in a Withering Tradition (1991)
- Hart, Hendrik. "Foreword" (pages vii-xxi) in [https://books.google.com/books?id=MgUsAAAACAAJ Against Nature? Types of Moral Argumentation regarding Homosexuality] Pim Pronk (Translated from the Dutch by John Vriend), Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1993, {{ISBN|0-8028-0623-6}}
- Hart, Hendrik; and others (editors) Walking the Tightrope of Faith (Rodopi, 1999)
- Hart, Hendrik; and others (editor) An Ethos of Compassion and the Integrity of Creation (University Press of America, 1995)
- Hart, Hendrik; and William Sweet. Responses to the Enlightenment: An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community (Brill, 2012).
References
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External links
- [http://faculty.icscanada.edu/hhart Faculty page]
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