Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 59

Chap.

Ill]

METHODOLOGY AND HODEGETICS

§ 19.

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But when the discoverer has once grasped this plan, he changes his method of thought to that of the engineer, and now takes up the proof of the sum, whether the location, the form, and the armament of the several bulwarks in each of the lines can be explained from the principal thought distions.

covered.

Mutatis mutmidis, this distinction between the method that lies in the object of investigation and the method by which seek to obtain knowledge of this object, is applicable to In every object we are to every scientific investigation. Entirely grasp scientifically there must be a realized plan. independently of our thought a thinking motive is active in

we

every object, and this motive impels the thought that lies in this object to proceed in a fixed track. This is the method that lies in the object itself, and with the knowledge of

which we are concerned.

But inasmuch

as

we have

jet to

penetrate from the circumference to the centre of this object,

we must seek

a

method

first

by which from what we see to when this is found does

reach the hidden thought; and only

our thinking move from the centre to the circumference and think indeed the thought over again which has embodied In the itself in the object to be investigated (/xeTep^erai). main, therefore,

we go

first

from without to within, and

then from within back again to without, and both times

we

bound to travel the way given in the object itself. Thus Methodology lays out for us the way along which to enter in upon the inner existence of the object, as well as the way along which we can understand the origin of this are

object. If, now, there were no obstacles in the way along which from phenomena we reach the inner existence of the object, this twofold task of Methodology would amount to doing the same thing twice, with the only difference of moving one time in an opposite direction from the other. Since, however, in the approach to the object all sorts of difficulties present themselves in the way, which rise partly from the observer and partly from the object to be observed, it is the task of Methodology to indicate how we can overcome

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