Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 635

IN

Chap. IV]

THE ORGANISM OF SCIENCE

stands related to man.

It is

611

one of the demands of truth,

therefore, that both factors of this conflict shall be exhibited

By placing

as they are.

an abyss, the abyss

is

a board covered with flowers across

not

filled in.

There

is

ever, that the conflict shall be overestimated.

no need, howIf,

for instance,

the naturalist observes that the deposit of the Nile increases

annually so

many

millimetres,

high, his conclusion

is

and that

it

is

so

many metres

indisputable, that, if this deposit has

been constant, the height of 12.47 metres now reached would have required a much longer period of time than is known to our era. But he is not able to prove that the deposit has been constant. The required observation lies outside the empiric domain to which he must limit his judgment. This is not cited for the sake of proving the fact that our earth has not existed longer than six thousand years. With reference to this fact Scriptural teaching is by no means exegetically But for the sake of showing in a concrete instance sure. what we understand by an unlawful extension of the conflict. Meanwhile, the relation between Theology and Philosophy deserves separate mention, since the boundary which separates these two sciences is frequently crossed from both sides. This requires a closer analysis of the idea of philosoph}^ Philosophy embraces two things on the one hand, the investigation into man^ s psychical existence^ and, on the other hand, the effort to put together concentrically the entire content of the scientific consclous7iess in organic connection, and to explain it. Man's psychic existence leads, in turn, to a separate investigation (1) into his psyche ('v|^f%^) as such (psychology), and (2) into the ethical, sesthetical and logical qualities of this psyche (ethics, aesthetics and logic). And :

finally, Logic, in a

broader sense, includes the investigation

which govern our thought, and into the ways which lead to knowledge (^Prineipie7ileh7-e^ Logica und ErTcenntnisstheorie^. The second task of Philosophy is of an entirely different kind it is not directed to the conscious and thinking man, but it is the into the consciousness as such, into the laws

;

effort

of

the

which presents

thinking itself to

man him

himself to reflect the cosmos, as existing organically,

as

an

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