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Apr 23, 1898 Died on 26 Jul 1987 (aged 89)
Dutch philosopher
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About Johan Mekkes
- Johan Peter Albertus Mekkes (23 April 1898, Harderwijk – 26 July 1987, The Hague) was a Dutch philosopher.
- Having started his career as an officer in the Dutch army, he later studied law and philosophy.
- His active life as a publishing philosopher started around 1947.
- In 1949 he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Leiden.
- Due to a scarcity of translated works he is little known in the English-speaking world but he was influential for a number of other Dutch philosophers.
- He was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam, after the first generation of Herman Dooyeweerd and D.
- H.
- Th.
- Vollenhoven.
- Other second generationers were: Hendrik van Riessen, S.
- U.
- Zuidema and K.
- J.
- Popma.
