On The Doctrine of Abstract or Rational Knowledge.
But it is rational knowledge, drawn from perception of the external actual world and the information which the most intimate fact of self-consciousness affords us concerning it, deposited in distinct conceptions.
The true revelation--that is, the true source of rational knowledge--is to be sought in nature alone.
This error will only be destroyed when, in the twentieth century, the prevalent superstition gives place to rational knowledge and to a monistic conception of the unity of God and the world.
To explain this distinction, we may take as our example of rational knowledge such a proposition as that two {214} and two make four.
The character of necessity attaches to rational knowledge, but not to sensuous.
In this regard the direct opposite of rational knowledgeis feeling, and therefore we must insert the explanation of feeling here.
Rational knowledge (wissen) is therefore abstract consciousness, the permanent possession in concepts of the reason, of what has become known in another way.
Such hereditary articles of faith take root all the more firmly, the further they are removed from a rational knowledge of nature, and enveloped in the mysterious mantle of mythological poesy.
Against this monistic ethic founded on a rational knowledge of nature, it has been objected that it is fitted to undermine existing civilisation, and especially that it encourages the subversive aims of social democracy.
These we cannot indeed for the time establish on a secure basis; and yet we may make use of them in the way of explaining phenomena, in so far as they are not inconsistent with a rational knowledge of nature.
Now it is an essential principle of reason, however employed, to push its knowledge to a consciousness of its necessity (without which it would not be rational knowledge).
For inasmuch as they tended to set reason above authority, it would seem that there was no bound to their pursuit of rational knowledge, wherewith to expand and fortify their reason.
Logic is properly the stage succeeding grammar in the formulation of rational knowledge.
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