Antithesis, synthesis, and the idea of transformational philosophy

TLDR: Dooyeweerd as mentioned in this paper argued that philosophical thought as such stands in an inner relationship with historical development, and that no thinker whatever can withdraw himself from this historical evolution, rejecting the proud illusion that any thinker whatever could begin as it were with a clean slate and disassociate himself from the development of the age-old process of philosophical reflection.

Abstract: Philosophic thought as such stands in an inner relationship with historical development, ... no thinker whatever can withdraw himself from this historical evolution. Our transcendental ground-Idea itself ... rejects the proud illusion that any thinker whatever could begin as it were with a clean slate and disassociate himself from the development of the age-old process of philosophical reflection. Only let not the postulate of the ‘philosophia perennis’ be turned against the religious ground-motive of philosophy with the intention of involving it ... in historical relativity. (Herman Dooyeweerd, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, vol. 1, p. 118)