Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 35

Chap.

I]

§6.

USAGE OF THE WORD IN OUR CENTURY

§ 6.

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Usage of the Word in our Century

The understanding

of Encyclopedia, as a brief

resume of

the results of a science, was still held in our century in so radical a sense, that in the Introduction to his Encyclopaedic

und Methodologie der Philologischen Wissenschaft, Lpz. 1877, p. 36, Boeckh writes that the conception of Encyclopedia lies "A in its being " a general presentation," and then adds :

not necessarily involved in it, seeing that logical scheme it might be constructed simply as an Alphabetical Encyclois

do not mean to say that an Encyclopedia should be devoid of all logical character, but only, as aw Encyclopedia it is not necessary.'' All idea of system is thus excluded from the conception attached by him to the name. To him it is no orlis doctrinae, as it was to Elyot, nor pedia.

I

a "description of the estate of the

kingdom of sciences" it was to Alstedt.

(delineatio latifundii regni scientiarum) as

To him no system follows from the idea of Encyclopedia. From its very nature it needs but to be an agglomerate

;

has any connection, that flows from its general character, and not from its nature as Encyclopedia. The use of the word Encyclopedia came, however, to

and

if

it

stand in direct opposition to this under the influence of modern philosophy, after Hegel chose the name of Encyclopedia as title for his systematic review of philosophy

{Encyclopaedia der Phil. Wissenschaft, Heidelb. 1817, 1827, Sammtl Werke, Bd. 6, la and 1830, Berlin, 1840 and 1843. F. Reuss, J. G. Buhle, K. G. Before Hegel, Klugel, 75).

G. Krug, E. Schmid and others had used the name of Encyclopedia for their expositions of the relations of Murthe sciences or of the departments of any one science. Ruef,

W.

J.

sinna and Clarisse did the same in theology, J. S. Piitter in law and Boerhaave in medicine. But the idea of system in the conception of Encyclopedia came to the foreground with full consciousness only when Fichte took science itself to be an object of science, and when Hegel, in the same track,

wedded the name such,

now

of Encyclopedia to this idea.

Science, as

became an object of scientific investigation

;

the

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