Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 50

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CRITICAL

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§ 14.

ment when with

a clear insight

that impelled you. this

process:

that

DEMAND

in

I

you grasped the thought

we stand human mind

Genetically, therefore, originally

[Dir.

the

before there

Avorked the need of bringing a certain order into the chaos of its knowledge, not arbitrarily, but agreeably to a distin-

guishing principle that forced itself upon it. Further, that this need quickened the impression that there is a certain order in what presented itself to it as chaos, and that for this impression also it sought a representation in the figure and activity of the cyclos, and that in this way it formed the That under the impulse of this impresivord Encyclopedia. sion clarified by the word^ it performed Encyclopedical labor. That first with less and then with greater clearness the Encyclopedic idea led it in this work. And that only after this the Encyclopedical thought in turn was thought out by it, till at length it Avas able to give itself an account of what it accomplished and aimed at in this Encyclopedical labor. In this way only it grasped the Encyclopedic thought Avith entire clearness of consciousness, and thus formed its conception, § 14.

Critical

Demand

In forming this definition of the conception we must Simply to construe the conception out of all that presents itself as Encyclopedic work is already Avork critically.

because the great variety of matter exhibited under this label allows of no unity of conception. Just because Encyclopedic students were impelled for a long impossible,

time by the impression only, led by the ivord, or inspired bj the idea, but lacked the verification of the clear conception, it could not but happen that many things allied more or less distantly to Encyclopedia were ornamented with its name that a good deal belonging to

and that a large share

of

it Avas

wrongly interpreted;

inseparable essentials Avas neg-

The definition of the conception of Encyclopedia demands, therefore, a critical discrimination of matter, and Avhile on the one hand the idea must be grasped from Avhat presents itself under this name, on the other hand also

lected.

the historical content must be marked out agreeably to the

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