Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 62

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§ 21.

ORGANIC CHARACTER

[Div. I

thought we place a series of departments of science side by side, there is again a threefold relation among them (1) since the objects with whose study these departments are concerned (Botany, Zoology, etc.) are organically related in life itself; (2) since the reflections of these objects do not lie loosely side by side in our mind, but also in the world of our thinking maintain an organic relation with each other; and (3) since the activities which go out from these objects upon life, are organically involved with one another. If nov/ there were no unity in this threefold organic relation, :

we should have the

first

a threefold organic interpretation of science

according to the relation of phenomena, the second

according to the relation of our thoughts, and the third according to the relation of the several ends at which our or, more briefly still, we should have a phenomenal, a logical, and a practical interpretation. But this The organic inter-relations of phenomena cannot is not so. grasped by us except as an outcome of an organic thought; be the organic relation of what is known in our thoughts cannot assert its rights until it agrees with the organic interrelation of the phenomena; and the workings of this knowledge upon our life stand in turn in relation both to the inter-relations of the phenomena and to our knowledge History truly shows that the empiriof those phenomena. cal division of study (the phenomenal), with which all

studies aim:

science began, and the theoretical (the logical), which only

came

later on, even as that of the university (in faculties), which, a few particulars excepted, kept equal step with the

last-named, have amounted mainly in the end to a similar division of the sciences.

But with

reference to this point also Encyclopedia should

reach self-consciousness, and give itself a clear account of the question what

it

In which case

is

it

understands by the organism of science. self-evident that it cannot allow itself

governed by the practical university division of the but that it must rather examine critically and correct them. And it lies equally near at hand that the phenomenon by itself should not be permitted to influence

to be

faculties,

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