Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 60

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WISSENSCHAFTSLEHRE

[Div. I

or, where they are insuperable, to show us which to reach our end. These difficulties, which differ with the several objects, compel Methodology to indicate a proper method for each of the several departments of study, by which in each department the end can be A general Methodology of sciences, therefore, is reached. Methodology also must specialize itself, and not enough. since the special method for each department and each subdivision of a department is wholly governed b}'- the Encyclopedic relation of the parts with the whole, Encyclopedia It can easily takes up into itself this special Methodolog}-. be separated from this connection for the entire group of departments, to serve as a department of general Methodology; but since the question of method returns with each subdivision of every department, a special Methodology would have to include the entire Encyclopedia of the departIn ment, in order to be intelligible and to justify itself. one instance it would be an encyclopedic woof with a methodological warp, and in the other instance Methodology embroidered upon encyclopedic canvas. And, however real the difference is between the two, this difference is too

these difficulties

;

a side-road by

insignificant to justify the trouble of a se^jarate treatment. § 20.

''Wissenschaftslehre''

Encyclopedia has incorrectly been confused with allgemeine He Fichte's title accounts for this. " " Wissenschaftslehre a "Wissen as himself describes the vom TFmew," and consequently not "von der Wissenschaft/^ "Allo-emeine lehre vom Wissen'' would have been the more accurate name, and would have prevented misunderstanding. Wisr^enscliaftslehre.

"Knowledge" and "science" are different things. Knowledge itself is a phenomenon in the human mind. Suppose an entire population in a college town were massacred there would be no more hioivledge in that city; for all knowledge assumes a living, thinking person who knows. But if the library had been spared, there would still be science to be found in that massacred town, because those books contain :

a

whole mass

of

science.

It

is

a

verv different thing.

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