The Division and Methods of the Sciences. St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Questions V and VI of the De Trinitate of Boethius [Book Review]
Abstract
All scientific knowledge is in some way unified; the scheme of the speculative sciences is not just a method of arrangement that is casual and artificial. There is a true hierarchy of the sciences. In popular thought to-day the empirical sciences have gained the ascendancy; there are those who are confident that science will not only unlock the mysteries of nature but will solve eventually all our problems. There is no mistake about its success, for its practical benefit to mankind is immense. The modern mind is so impressed by utility that it refuses to be concerned with anything else.