Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 46

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§ 12.

PROVISIONAL RESULT

[Div. I

instead of the principle of science itself, the historical division of the faculties has become the motive of the division.

Thirdly, the practical purpose has tempted more frequently manual than to the writ-

to the production of a convenient

ing of a scientific Encyclopedia. And fourthly (an evil indicated already by Fichte and Griiber), the former custom of introducing the students into the universitas scientiarum too, as well as into their

and more neglected.

own department,

has been more

The academy has become an agglomand the university idea

erate of faculty-schools,

in its later

interpretation has lost something of its inner truth.

Provisional Result

§ 12.

This review of the development of the Encyclopedic idea, with the history of the name of Encyclopedia, yields the following result. The Encyclopedic idea sprang from the dim consciousness that the knowledge at our ser-

in connection

vice can be

made

the subject of thought, which study brings

about the classification of consciousness found at is

its

first

only a practical expression, which

name made between

evident from the choice of the

the distinction that was

iyKVKXto';,

crco/ia,

of this

knowledge was

pendia, which collected

presented dia

was

it

as a unity.

all

The

and from

a higher and lower,

a holy or profane, group of knowledge. or

This dim

material into groups.

Then

the body,

objectified in large

com-

disposable knowledge and so classification in these

at first entirely arbitrary or accidental,

compengradu-

till

need made itself felt of introducing system into this arrangement. This systematizing became ever more difficult as the material to be arranged constantly grew in volume, till finally the two motives parted company, and the material ally the

was arranged on the one hand alphabetically, exclusive of system, while on the other hand the arrangement and the This latter study was relation were studied independently. all

provisionally almost exclusively technical,

till

Fichte gave

the impetus to postulate the investigation of the organic

system of science.

science itself as a necessary

and independent

The misunderstanding presented

itself here, for a

all

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