Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 218

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THE FIVE FACULTIES

§ 53.

[Div. II

is a wider conception than language and word can never acquire the significance of being a principal group in the

word, and language

still

more,

that of littera scripta, yet

As

object of science.

language a3sthetic

is

man

a life-expression of

and material

life,

and hence for each

the expression of

This

is

pression of which

life is

these a

studied the object of science

done only when is

of

As long

separate faculty should have to be created.

grasped.

the life of

coordinated with the expressions of the ethical,

life itself is

as only is

not

reached, the ex-

This, in the case of the logos,

observed.

is,

in its general sense, the life of the

is

this life

which recapitulates

human

itself in

consciousness.

It

the logos, taken as

thought; expresses itself in the logos, taken as word; and

which

for a very considerable part

literary product.

And

is

at our disposal in the

thus we have laid our hand upon a

principal group in the great object of science; for not only does

man

belong to this object, but is himself the most important it, and it is in his wonderful consciousness that pres-

factor in

now

in this sense

understood to be

the conscious

ently the whole cosmos reflects

the object of this faculty

is

itself.

If

life of man, the word conscious must of necessity be taken in Else all science could be brought under its pregnant sense. But this danger is evaded this faculty, even that of nature. emphasis is placed upon the quality if, on the other hand, full of conscious life, so that in this faculty our life is in question only from the side of our consciousness. By doing this we keep in the path first indicated by Boeck and extended so

much

farther

by

my

esteemed colleague. Dr.

his Rectoral oration of 1891.^

If

J.

Woltjer, in

Boeck placed

thinJcing too

much

in the foreground. Dr. Woltjer rightly perceived that from thinking we must go back to the Logos as reason in man and it is therefore entirely in keeping with the relation established by him, that in Philology we interpret the word Logos as indicating that which is conscious in our life. And thus the view-point is gained, from which the practice is justified, which has ever united philosophical and Even if language and historical studies with that of Letters. ;

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The Science of the Logos, by Dr. J. Woltjer, 1891.

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