Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 101

Chap.

BETWEEN SUBJECT AND OBJECT

I]

77

This active power roots in the fact, if we may put it so, that we become aware of these relations outside of us, the setting for them is present in our own consciousness. This before

would not be so

if

these relations were accidental and

But

were not organically related. is

part of their very nature.

if

they

to be organically related

It is for this reason

that the

no chaos, but cosmos that a universality prevails in the special; and that there appear in these relations an order and a regularity which warrant their continuity and There is system in these relations. constancy. These several relations also stand in relation to each other, and our affinity to the object proves itself by the fact that our capacity of thought is so constructed as to enable it to see through these last relations. If correctly understood, we may say that when human thought is completed it shall be like the completed organism of these relations. Our thinking is entirely and exclusively disposed to these relations, and these relations are the objectification of our thinking. object

And

is

;

this carries itself so unerringly that it is easily under-

stood

why some

these relations,

philosophers have denied the objectivity of

and have viewed them

reproductions of our thinking. settled,

were

it

relations there

as being merely the This question could not be

not for the fact that

were also those

of

transition of condition to condition. of these relations is also

among

the numerous

a regular

And

and orderly

since the result

found in places where for ages nathuman eyes, such as on the tops

ure has not been seen by of

mountains reached for the

way

first

corners of the world, or in

time, or in far out-of-the-

newly examined

layers of

the earth-crust, this subjectivism appears untenable.

This

identity of our thinking consciousness with the world of

must be emphasized, however, in so far as these relano existence except for an original Subject, who has thought them out, and is able to let this product of his relations

tions have

thoughts govern the whole cosmos.

Just because these

own, they cannot work organically unless they are organically thought, i.e. from a first principle. When we study these relations, we merely relations have

no substance

of their

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