Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 44

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20

THE BREAK

§ 11.

to light that the

''

IN

knowledge

THE PROCESS

" of

man forms

[Div. 1

a

world by

that without unity of principle this world of our knowledge remains unintelligible; and that the necessary itself;

relation

between (1)

man

ivho knoivs, (2)

knowledge as such,

and (3) the Jcnotvn, or the thus far acquired science, must be explained organically from this one principle. Only when this was perceived with some measure of clearness was the science Not that this is the only science that of Encyclopedia born. One only of is called to solve the problem in all its parts. these three parts lehre has

is its

appointed task.

knowledge {Wissen^

takes knoiving

man

itself

The

for its

Wissenschafts-

object;

as its ol^ject of investigation;

Logic

and Ency-

clopedia confines itself to the investigation of science as an independent whole. But it is only by Fichte's radical for-

mulations in the domain of the Wissenschaftslehre that the independent character of Encyclopedia entered into the sense Now, indeed, it was felt that the unit of of our times. science formed a well-rounded whole; that an inwardly impelling power determined the circumference of its circle and that the place for each of its parts is assigned by the character of

its

organism.

From

technic, Avhich it

had thus

changed into a philosophical conception; and when animated by this thought Schelling published his Vorlesungen liber die Methode des Academischen Studiums, and Tittmann and Beneke in like manner displaced the mechanical interpretation of the study by the organic, the process but awaited the intellectual powers of

far

a if

been, Encyclopedia was

Hegel not of

to give us the first encyclopedia in the higher sense, all,

at least of philosophical, science. § 11.

The Break

in the

Process

This very advent of Encyclopedia, as a philosophical science which has science itself for its object, rendered the execution of an Encyclopedia of general science provisionally impossible, and necessitated seeking the development of this new-born science first in the domain of the special sciences.

Here

also progress w^as to be

to the general.

Thus

made from

the special

the second half especially of this cen-

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