Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 66

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§ 25.

§ 24.

The only

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Method of Encyclopedia

practicable

method

of general

Encyclopedia

is,

should begin with the study of the historical development of the special sciences as they now are, and from this should endeavor to form for itself an image of the develop-

that

it

ment

of science in general.

historical

science as

when

it

phenomenon such and the

Then

it

should examine this

in order to understand the motive of special motive of its several parts,

has thus fixed the idea of science and of

its

and

separate

should investigate historically the ways by which it has progressed and the causes that have retarded or corrupted Having in this way succeeded historically in discovering it. parts, it

the essential nature of its object, and the law of this object's life.

Encyclopedia should then proceed to investigate in the

same way each of the parts and to determine the organic relation between them. And having in this way obtained a clear representation of what the organism of science is, how its functions operate and its parts cohere, with this result in hand it should criticise the actual study of science. Its From what has been point of departure must be historical. And with its idea. must develop discovered it historically both as critic its task this standard in hand it must prosecute and physician. § 25. Purely Formal This answers of itself the question to what extent Enis to concern itself with the material of each science. It is not its task to furnish the body of science itself, but to point out the organic relations in this body, to demonstrate them, and, in case of error, to reestablish their Encyclopedia does not build the body of proper location. science, neither does it reproduce it, but it begins by viewing this body of science as given; and its task is merely cyclopedia

show that it is a body, and how, as a body, it exists. The Physiologist does not bring the blood into the body,

to

he reproduce it, neither is it his calling His calling to investigate the whole quantity of blood. limits itself to the examination of blood as such, in its com-

neither does

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