Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 224

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THE FIVE FACULTIES

§ 53.

[Div. II

motive in the medical, but in the somatical charAs such it shoukl belong as a tecliFrom the view-point of nical department to Physiology. however, delivery ivith pain is an abnormal Revelation, phenomenon, and to this extent we see no difficulty in coordinating obstetrics after the old style with medical and surgical not find

its

acter of these studies.

With

science. is

the exception of these incidental questions

it

readily seen, meanwhile, that as long as the Medical science

confines itself to these independent studies,

it

still

higher unity^ and cannot be credited with having

lacks

come

its

to a

This would only be possible if it could grasp the deeper cause of the corruption from which if, on the other hand, it could expose all diseases originate clear self-consciousness.

;

the relation between this cause and the reagents

could

crown

labor by

its

the

and thus

;

production of a Medical

Philosophy.

The

Juridical faculty claims a

our attention, since

— not

in

of

himself, but as taken in

its

Ids

province

relation to

This, however, must not be interpreted in the

other men.

man

is merely a social being, and that therefore study must lapse into sociology. The origin of

sense that juridical

somewhat larger share

stands in a closer relation to that of

In the object of science we found

Theology. in wmw,

it

this faculty

is

a protest against this.

From

was a faculty for the study of Sancta

the beginning-

devoted to were to administer the affairs of the education of those who government and exercise the judicial function. Both these conceptions, of government and judicial power, were derived from the fundamental conception of the Supreme Authority. The folly of separating the powers of state had not yet been

it

invented, and the intrinsic unity of

'lustitia,

all legislative, judicial,

and governing power stood still firm in the common mind. Authority was exercised over men upon earth this authority was not original with man, but was conferred of God upon the magistracy. Hence the way in which this authority was to be exercised by the magistracy was not left to the arbitrariness of despotism, but this authority fulfilled its end ;

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