Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 113

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Chap.

§ 41.

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FALLACIOUS THEORIES

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mental power acquired by the use of language. When the content of our logical consciousness is objectified in language, this objectification reflects itself in our conbut sciousness, which enables us to think without words by itself we cannot do without the word. Since we are

outcome

of

:

partly psychic and partly somatic,

it is

by virtue

of our two-

fold nature that psychic thought seeks a body for itself in

the word, and only in this finest commingling of our psychic

and somatic being does our ego grasp with clearness the The development of content of our logical consciousness. thinking and speaking keeps equal pace with the growing child, and only a people with a richly developed language can produce deep thinkers. We readily grant that there are persons whose speech is both fluent and meaningless, and that on the other hand there are those who think deeply and find great difficulty in expressing themselves clearly but this phenomenon presents no objection to our assertion, since language is the product of the nation as a whole, and during the period of his educational development the individual merely grows into the language and thereby into the world of thought peculiar to his people. No reckonings therefore can be made with what is peculiar to the few. The relation between language and thought bears a general character, and only after generalization can it be critically examined. § 41.

Fallacious Theories

had taken place in the we should arrive by way of recapitulation

Suppose that no disturbance by subject or object,

at the following conclusion

:

sin

The subject of science is human consciousness

universal ego in the universal object is the

cosmos.

;

tlie tlie

This subject and object each exists

and an organic relation exists between the two. Because the ego exists dichotomically, i.e. psychicall}" as well as somatically, our consciousness has two fundamental forms, which lead to representations and to conceptions ; while in

organically.,

the object

we

find the corresponding distinction

ments and relations.

And

it is

between

ele-

in virtue of this correspond-

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