Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 43

Chap. II]

VICTORY OF THE ORGANIC IDEA

§ 10.

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liis followers no doubt furnished some system, but with a brief resume of the content for every department of With them formal Encyclopedia obtained no indescience. pendent position as it did with Ernesti and Gessner. Even Eschenburg, who in his Lehrhuch der Wissenschaftshmde,

Sulzer and

1792, embodied Kant's idea, as well as his followers Hefter, Burdach and Kraus, continued to look upon the formal as

the frame in which the material was arranged; and it is only in Erhard Schmid's Gruridriss der allgemeinen Encyclo-

paedie mid Methodologie (1810), in Schaller's Encyclopaedie und Methodologie der Wissenschaften (1812), and partly in lasche's ArcMtectoyiik der Wissenschaften (1816), that the

suggestion of Ernesti and Gessner is worked out, and the consciousness returns that this study of science as science is

Encyclopedia in § 10.

And

yet these

its real sense.

Victory of the Organic Idea

men

only stood in the vestibule Johann first to unlock the temple itself ;

Gottlieb Fichte was the

by his treatises on Die Bestimmung des Grelehrten (1794) and Das Wesen des Gelehrien (1806); but especially by his numerous monographs on the Wissenschaftslehre, which after 1801 he prepared for his classes in Berlin and which later he This does not mean that in these explained and defended. studies Fichte gave us a true Encyclopedia. On the contrary, in his Wisseyischaftslehre no trace of this can be found. But Fichte marked knowing itself as the object of an independent science; and thus quickened the dim consciousness that the encyclopedic insight into the organism of the sciences was not merely an auxiliary aid by which to create order in the chaos, nor simply tended to satisfy the systematic inclination and longing after order that is active in the

man

and an aim which

of science, but that the insight into the nature

into the organic relation of the sciences

must be striven "

after

per

se as

is

an indispensable part of our

Das Wissen vom Wissen,'" as Fichte preferred to call it, is the root from which all fundamental Encyclopedia germinates. By this watchword the truth had come knowledge.

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