Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 91

Chap.

I]

§ 39.

KELATION BETWEEN SUBJECT AND OBJECT

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science, while the unity of these sciences could only lie in

the observing subject or in the formal unity of the

But our impulse

of observation.

As

long as there

object

and the

is

a Chinese wall between one realm of the

other, that wall allows us

it away, in order that

across which winism owes

manner

after science aims higher.

we may know

no

rest.

We

want

the natural boundaries

from one realm into the other. Darsuccess more to this impulse of science than to the merits of its results. Hence our ideal of science will in the end prove an illusion, unless the object is

to step its

uncommon

grasped as existing organically. § 39.

Organic Relation between Subject and Object

Even yet enough has not been that the subject of science,

i.e.

said.

the

It is not sufficient

human

consciousness,

thinking individuals, and that the object, about which thinking man wants to know everything he can, exists organically in its parts but there must also be an organic relation between this subject and this This follows already from what was said above, object. lives organically in

;

viz. that the subject itself, as

well as the thinking of the

become objects of science. If there were no organic relation between everything that exists outside of us and subject,

ourselves, our consciousness included, the relation in the

would be wanting. tween our person and the object

But

this

organic relation be-

object of science

is

much more

necessary, in order to render the science of the object possible for us.

We

have purposely said that there must be an organic between the object and our person. The relation between the object and our thinking would not be sufficient, since the thinking cannot be taken apart from the thinking Even when thinking itself is made the object of subject. investigation, and generalization is made, it is separated from the individual subject, but it remains bound to the general subject of our human nature. Thus for all science a threefold organic relation between subject and object is necessary. There must be an organic relation between that

relation

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