Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 26

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§ 2.

USE IN THE GREEK CLASSICS

[Div.

I

To exclude arbitrariness, and to keep ourfrom ideal subjectivity, the conservative path must that no defiagain be discovered, at least to this extent nition of any concejjtion should be admitted, which does not take account of what went on in the human spirit (even though with no very clear consciousness) when the germ (See Dr. Georg Runze, of this conception first originated. Die Bedeutung der SpracJie fur das wissenschaftliche Er-

Encyclopedia. selves

—

ken7ien, Halle, 1886.)

Use in the

§ 2.

As

for

most

GrreeJc

Classics

germ of the confound among the Greeks.

scientific conceptions, the

" also is

ception of "

Encyclopedia

They were

the people who, in contrast with the intuitive

powers of the Eastern nations on the one hand, and in disfrom the limited form of the life of the spirit in Rome on the other hand, were divinely endowed with the disposition, tendency and talent of extricating its thinking consciousness from the world of phenomena and of soaring above it on free wings. And yet, as far as we know, the word Encyclopedia in its combination was unknown to them. The first trace of this combination is discovered in Galen, the physician and philosopher, who died about two hundred years after the birth of Christ. ^ The Greeks left the two parts of the word standing side by side, and spoke of 'Ejkvtinction

/cXio? TTaihela.

The

sense of TratSeia in this combination needs no further

explanation.

UaiSeia means instruction, training, educa-

that by which a Trat? becomes an

tion

;

lies

in the definition

In

its

simplest sense, iyKVKXio<i

itself to

circle.

which makes

you as being included But this idea admits of

avi]p.

The

difficulty

this iraiheCa, i>yKVK\Lo<i.

is all

that which presents

in a KVKXo'i, all sorts

i.e.

a ring or

of shades, accord-

1 In his Ilept diairrji o^^cov, i.e. de victus ratione in morbis acntis, c. II. have named Galen as the first Greek writer. It is also found already iu Pliny, Natur. hist. § 14 iam omnia attingnnt, quae Graeci rrjs iyKVK\oTrai5elas

I

:

vocant, et tamen ignota aut incerta ingeniis facta, alia vero ita multis prodita ut iu fastidium siut adducta.

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