Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 636

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THE BOUNDARY OF THEOLOGY

§ 95.

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organic whole in the mirror of his consciousness.

Actually,

two sciences are embraced in Philosophy which Efforts have even been made to give an evermore separate. independent position to the study of thinking man, under the name of " Logic" (taken in a broader sense than now). This plan will probably produce the farther effect of having Psychology appear on a ground of its own, Avith its quality-doctrine in ethics and aesthetics. This will make Logic consist of the science of thinking man, or, if you please, it will make tlie Logos in man to be the object of investigation, and Philosophy, in the narrower sense, will be the science which collects the results of all the other sciences concentrically under a higher unity. Thus we may have Logic as the science of thinking (cogitare), and Philosophy as the science of being Meanwhile, no objection can be raised against class(esse). ing, as yet, this entire complex of sciences under the common

therefore,

name

of the philosophical sciences, provided in the discussion

between theology and these sciences, the indiis kept in view, and we no longer speak of

of the relations

cated distinction

As

the philosophy.

for Logic, the saying that

iliary to the theologian

handmaid

of theology.

As

the other sciences.

representation of the of custom.

man

is

reduces

It

is,

it

by no means

it is

to the

an aux-

rank of a

It renders this service equally to all

far as

Logic

handmaid

is

concerned, this entire

(ancilla)

was simply a matter

indeed, a patent fact, that in every science

and if he shall undertake inteland prepared way, and in the the knowledge and practice of the

the thinking agent,

lectual pursuits in an accurate full consciousness of self,

faculty of thought are indispensable to him.

who undervalues

Logic, as

being

little

A

theologian

necessary to him,

This was by no means the practice They always emphasized most strongly the study of formal logic, together with its related arts (jexvaC^. By saying this, we do not imply that in this

simply disarms himself. of

our older theologians.

may

These are excluded so long as one confines himself to logic in the narrower sense, but are bound to come up as soon as "die Principien der Erkenntniss," together with the method by field,

also,

no

conflicts

present themselves.

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