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Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University
By Robert J. Henle, S.J. A.B., A.M., Ph.L., S.T.L.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE
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Nihil Obstat Francis Wade, S.J., censor deputatus Milwaukiae, die 8 mensis Januarii, 1951
Imprimatur Moyses E. Kiley Archiepiscopus Milwaukiensis Milwaukiae die 12 mensis Januarii, 1951
Imprimi Potest Daniel H. Conway, S.J. Praepositus Provincialis Provinciae Missourianae die 25 mensis Novembris, 1950
Second Printing, 1980
Copyright 1980 Marquette University
ISBN 0-87462-115-1
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Prefatory
The Aristotelian Society of Marquette University each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. Customarily delivered on the Sunday nearest March 7, the feast-day of the Society's patron saint, these lectures are called the Aquinas lectures.
In 1950 the Society had the pleasure of recording the lecture of the Reverend Robert J. Henle, S.J.
Father Henle was born Sept. 12, 1909 at Muscatine, Iowa. He received the A.B. degree in 1931; A.M. in 1932; the Licentiate in Philosophy in 1935, all from St. Louis University; the Licentiate in Sacred Theology, St. Mary's College, Kansas, in 1941. He did advanced studies at St. Stanislaus Novitiate, Cleveland, in 1941-42 and at the University of Toronto 1942-43 and 1944-45.
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He was instructor in classics, St. Louis University High School, 1935-37; instructor in education, Campion Summer School, Prairie du Chein, Wis., 1937-41; instructor in philosophy, St. Louis University 1943-47; and has been assistant professor of philosophy since 1947. He has been dean of the School of Philosophy and Science, St. Louis University, since 1943, and dean of the Graduate School since 1950.
Father Henle is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association and was chairman of the committee on research of that organization 1949-50. He is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and is president of the Missouri State Philosophical Association 1950-51.
He was editor of The Modern Schoolman 1945-50. Among the books he has written are: A Latin Grammer for High Schools, 1937, revised edition, 1939; First Year Latin, 1937, revised edition, 1939; Second Year Latin, 1938, revised edition,
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1939; Third Year Latin, 1940; Fourth Year Latin, 1942. He is a contributor to The Modern Schoolman, The Historical Bulletin, The Classical Bulletin, America, Thought, The Catholic World, Jesuit Educational Quarterly, Bulletin of the National Catholic Educational Association.
To the list of his writings the Aristotelian Society has the honor of adding Method in Metaphysics.
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Method in Metaphysics
Some twenty-two years ago, the eminent Pere Marechal opened a series of lectures at the University of Louvain in which he intended to deal with the problems of the transcendental value of metaphysics.1 The crux of the problem he crystallized in what he called the question of the gate to metaphysics, that is to say, the passage from sense knowledge to metaphysical knowledge strictly so-called. It is with this problem that I am here concerned. I do not intend to deal directly with the question of the transcendental applications of metaphysics but rather with the crucial issue of its origin in human knowledge from sense experience.
I do not intend to give either a complete and total explanation or one that is
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entirely new. Much of what I will say has already been discovered and said by those before me, notably by the patron of these lectures, Thomas Aquinas. But above all I am fearful of falling into the fallacy which I have called the fallacy of "only." It is a dangerous temptation to which most philosophers yield at some point or other, to mistake some positive discovery or explanation for a total explanationto say, for example, that because they have found one method of knowledge which is valid and intelligible, it is the only method of knowledge. Whenever we insert an "only" in a statement it becomes really two statements, one positive and the other negative. If we say, for example, "the only way to travel from Saint Louis to Milwaukee is by train," we are saying first that we can travel from Saint Louis to Milwaukee by train, which is obviously true, and secondly, that there is no other way we can travel from Saint Louis to Milwaukee, which is obviously false.
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Moreover, while it is quite possible to prove the positive element in such a composite statement it is extremely difficult to prove a negative statement which almost has the force of a universal exclusion. This is the error of those who say, for example, that only the scientific method can yield valid knowledge or that only one type of science is true science.
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