Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 221

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§ 50.

THE FIVE FACULTIES

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guage has produced in classical Literature. Next to this study of language as vehicle and incorporation of our consciousness, follows the investigation into the activities of this conscious-

ness in the

And

life of

humanity,

i.e.

the broad study of History.

and material Philosophy follow; the first to investigate conscious life in its nature, and the the second to answer the question, laws which govern it " how the World-Image " (Weltbild) has gradually formed itself in this consciousness, and in what form it exhibits This order of succession certainly gives itself at present. then, at length, formal

;

rise to the objection, that

lead the van

;

formal philosophy should properly

nevertheless,

we deem

it

necessary to maintain

because formal as well as material philosophy assumes a preceding development of language, and hence also a precedit,

ing history.

The Medical faculty being of less importance for our investiWe for our gation may therefore be more briefly considered. part do not desire the name of Medical faculty to be changed

We would not into Somatological or Philosomatical faculty. have the fact lost from sight that this science did not originate from the thirst after a knowledge of our body, but from the need of seeking healing for its diseases. For this implies the is

confession that

our general

neither sound nor normal, but

tive force, against

demand

human

condition

in conflict with a destruc-

which help from a saving power must be

sought and can be found. the

is

This, however, does not

weaken

that the medical character of these studies should

not too absolutely be maintained.

Obstetrics in itself

is

no real medical study. Moreover, medical study has always assumed the knowledge of the healthy body. And Hygiene, which demands an ever broader place, is not merely medicalprophylactic, but in part stands in line with the doctrine of diet, dress, etc., as tending to the maintenance of the healthy body. On these grounds it seems undeniable, that the object

of

body, or better

investigation for this faculty still,

man from

is

the

his somatic side.

for this reason the effort to take

up the body

human Already

of animals

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