Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 228

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204

THE FIVE FACULTIES

§ 53.

[Div. II

judgment in the last day while public authority must appoint law only upon the earth, and must pronounce sentence as judge upon that alone which can be legally established and maintained Hence ethics, in the external relations of life by compulsion. in

tlie

world, and

utter final

^vlio will

:

man

as touching the relation of in the

bearing upon the psychic facult}'"

in foro interno, will remain

Theological and Philological faculty

;

life,

pedagogy, as

;

belongs in the Philological

liygiene remains Avith the Medical

;

the material

side of property finds its stud}^ in the faculty of Natural

Philosophy

;

while

all

that

touches

the

technics

real

Juridical faculty stands in organic relation to it

cannot forego the assistance of any

(Lehnsiitze) from

all

;

but

it

;

it

is

Thus the

treated by the Artes and not by the Scientice. all

the others

must borrow data

does not lose

itself in

these

own science is the social abandoned to whim or accident, but as

studies, while the object of

its

man, not as governed by an authority, and thus bound to a law, which is indeed framed by man, but which finds its deepest ground and Ijence its binding rule in Him who created this human social life, and who, in the interests of its outward relations, on account of sin, conferred authority upon man over man, Tlie science of Law, therefore, is not onl}- to shed light upon the relation of the magistrate and the subject (public law and penal law), upon the relation of citizen to citizen (civil law, commercial law, etc.), and upon the relation of

life of

nation to nation (international law); but, before

all this, it

must develop the idea of Justice itself, so that it can be well understood at what view-jDoint it takes its stand, and according to what rule the development of law must be guided. I'o

accomplish

this, it

cannot rest content with the investi-

gation of existing Jural institutions, their comparison with

and a study of their historical never effect more than the knowledge others,

origin.

All this can

of formal law

;

while

Justice exhibits itself in its majesty only when it obtains its adamantine point of support in our psychical existence, and of necessity flows from what, to our deepest sense of life, is The question whether one worships highest and holiest.

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