Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 214

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§ 52.

OKGANIC DIVISION

[Dn-. II

and much more for the sake of utility. One studied natural philosophy and letters in order to become a jurist, physician, or theologian, or to obtain reservation

power over nature.

But with

this

evident that from the beginning these pro-

it is

visionally dependent faculties stood nearer to the scientific ideal,

and formally occupied a higher point of view. asked what distinctions control this actual division

If it is

of scientific labor, it is easily seen that the attention of the

thoughtful mind had directed itself in turn to that, as far as his nature that surrounds him ;

concerned,

man

man and to own being is

has occupied himself severally with his

and

so-

and that even more than these four groups of sciences, he aimed distinctively at The accuracy of this division, which tJie knoivledge of G-od. sprang from practical need, is apparent. The principium of

matic, psychic,

division

is

existence

the subject of science,

the coordination of

and with

social

his God,

man

by

;

i.e.

Man.

This leads to

himself with nature, which he rules,

whom

And this

he feels himself ruled.

crossed by another threefold division, which concerns

trilogy is " man " as such, even the distinction between

07ie man and many, and alongside of this the antithesis between his soynatic and psychic existence. Thus the subject was induced in the Theological faculty, to investigate the knowledge of God, and in the faculty of natural philosophy to pursue the knowledge

of nature

;

to investigate the somatic existence of

man

in the

Medical, his psychic existence in the Philological faculty,

and

faculty to

finally in the Juridical

studies which bear

upon human

embrace

relationships.

all

those

The boun-

dary between these provinces of science is nowhere absolutely certain, and between each two faculties there is always some more or less disputed ground but this cannot be otherwise, ;

since the parts of the object of science are organically related,

and the

reflection of this object in the consciousness

an equally organic character. had begun with devising a scheme for the

of the subject exhibits If science

divi-

sion of labor, these disputed frontier-fields of the faculties

would have been carefully distributed. Since science, however, and the division of faculties both, are products of the

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