T.G. Ooms

Tijs Ooms is a PhD student within the chair group of Dogmatics/Ethics. He is additionally active within the Moral Compass Project, where he researches how 'the good' can be meaningfully employed in contemporary moral practises. He uses a philosophical/systematic lens as he engages with the thought of early-protestant theologians. These theologians approached the good as 'transcendent' and 'immanent'. In other words, they understood the good on the one hand as an abstract concept that cannot be fully grasped by human thought but nonetheless morally appeals to us. On the other hand they acknowledge the varied way in which the good becomes concrete and tangible within human life. Tijs hopes to contribute to contemporary ethics by researching this apparently dual nature of the good.