"enkapsis takes place, when one structure of individuality [i.e. an entity] restrictively binds a second structure ... without destroying the peculiar character of the latter." [NC, III:125]

"Dooyeweerd identified at least five different types of enkapsis:

• Foundational Enkapsis

  - as that exhibited by the scuplture (work of art, marble it is made of)

• Subject-Object Enkapsis

  - as betweeh a snail and its shell

• Symbiotic Enkapsis

  - as between clover and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and also between a cow and its meadow

• Correlative Enkapsis

  - as between an animal and its environment

• Territorial Enkapsis

  - as between a state and its orchestras (direct version) or between a tax-payer and the schools (indirect version)"

"The term enkapsis was borrowed from the famous anatomist Heidenhain by Theodor Haering, who gave it a general philosophical meaning. Heidenhain used the term enkapsis or encapsulation to denote the relation between the separate organs and the total organism in the structure of a living creature. His scientific investigations had taught him that the organs of a living body such as the kidneys, the lungs, etc. are not simply “parts” of this body in the usual sense of dependent components, but that they are relatively independent individuals."

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date	1952