Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 212

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§ 52.

ORGANIC DIVISION

[Div. II

to be a disposition abroad to let the Theological faculty be-

come

extinct, or to supersede

it

by

a faculty of Philosophy,

no serious desire is perceived to enlarge the number of faculties beyond the five, and it is scarcely conceivable that tlie practical needs of life will ever warrant tlie increase Neither the smaller or larger number of of this number. departments, nor the lesser or greater number of professors, but only the combination of studies demanded by a practical education, decides in the end the number and the division of the faculties. it is by no means asserted that the prosecution and in connection with it the university life,

MeanAvhile of

science,

On

should aim exclusively at a practical education. trary, the pursuit of science for its

which must never be abandoned.

own

sake

the con-

the ideal

is

We

merely emphasize that the way to this ideal does not lead through sky and clouds, but through practical life. A science which loses itself in speculation and in abstraction never reaches its ideal, but ends in disaster and the high ideal of science will be the more nearly realized in proportion as the thirst after and the need of this ideal shall express themselves more strongly in human life, so that the practical need of it shall be stimulated by life. As the transition from unconscious into conscious life advances, the impulse born of society increases of itself to account for every element and every relation, and, thanks ;

to this impulse, the prosecution of science for its

own

sake

carries the day.

In connection with this

it

is

noteworthy that the three

originally principal faculties were born of the necessity of

Avarding off

evil.

This

is

case of the medical faculty,

seen in the strongest light in the

which

still

exhibits this negative

character in name, and partly even in practice.

It is not

called the somatic faculty, to express the fact that the

human

nor the hygienic faculty, to its study express the fact that health is the object of its choice; but b(xly

is

the object of

the medical.,

nated as

by which name the diseased

bod}" alone

is

desig-

This accords with the attention bestows in real life upon his body. As long as

its real

which man

;

object.

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