Noology

The school on the metaphysics of the 17th century, declining term Noologie ( noein from Greek = think ) can be best described as a form of spiritual teaching. It was also used by Atlas Crusius and the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid. In later times he played a role in the work of German philosopher Rudolf Christoph Eucken. Eucken called his philosophy Noologie because they are his opinion on the " world -spanning spirit and soul " refer. The method allows noological his opinion, "climbing of reality" to an " inner unity and full independence ." A detachment of scientific thought from the other culture processes is to be by Max Scheler, prevented. The noological method is opposite to the psychological method, based only on the human consciousness.

The term was also used as a structural principle for philosophical, political, and ethnological fields.

An especially to be found in Augustine argument is also sometimes called " Noologischer proof of God ". He moves, simplified reconstructed according to the following scheme: I recognize truths. These truths have certain perfections: Need to Eternity ( etc.). The coming of perfections can not be explained by instances which do not have this or lesser extent. There must be something, which explains my recognition of eternal truths and is itself highly eternal ( and so on). This it is, it is the truth itself, and this is God.