Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 89

§ 38.

CiiAi'. I]

man "

to

SUBJECT AND OBJECT

have knowledge

Q5

and every one receives a share

;

of

according to the measure of his disposition and station in Moreover, it is only with this interpretation that life. it

science obtains

its

divine consecration, because that higher

which was seen

to be the active agent in science, cannot be conceived otherwise than self-conscious for there can be no science for the human consciousness as such withfactor,

;

out a to

God

impel

to

maintain

its

uals, therefore,

man

to

pursue science, to give

organic relation.

With

you do not advance

Gremeingeist of our

human

the

a step,

human

it,

and

individ-

and even

if

the

nature should be personified

it

would not do, since this higher factor must be self-conscious^ and this Gemeingeist is brought to self-consciousness by science alone.

This higher

factor,

who

is

consciousness up to science^ must himself

human know what he will

to lead our

have us know. If the subject of science, i.e. the subject that wants to know and that acquires knowledge, lies in the consciousness of humanity, the object of science must ho,, all existmg things, as far as they have discovered their existence to our human consciousness, and will hereafter discover it or leave it to be in-

This unit divides

ferred.

itself at

not only what

lies

subject itself,

and the consciousness

once into three parts, as

outside of the thinking subject, but also the of this subject,

become

the object of scientific investigation.

This object, as such, could never constitute the material of science for man, if it existed purely atomistically, or if it could only be atomis-

known. It is known that Peruvian bark reacts against a feverish excitement in the blood, and it is also known that catarrh may occasion this feverish excitement. ticaily

But

as long as these particulars of cold, fever,

bark

but

lie

atomistically side by side, I

and Peruvian

may know them

indeed,

have no science yet of these data. For the idea of science implies, that from the manifold things I know a connected^nowledigQ is born, which would not be possible if I

there object.

were no

relation

The necessity

among

the

several parts of the

of organic inter-relations, wliich

was

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