ABSTRACT

A familiar complaint is that the number and content of special sciences have become so vast that nobody is able any more to survey and enjoy all these treasures of cognition, and to derive full advant­ age from this wealth. It is not immediately clear why surveying one area only is less enjoyable than surveying all, or what great advantages one could derive from an encyclopedic knowledge. Imagine a greatly improved pedagogy guided by a more congenial reorganization of knowledge which enables many an individual to know all that has been ascertained objectively in all sciences. It might be said that the essential task of philosophy remains untouched since what is sought for is an account of how all sciences are rooted in the (yet to be uncovered) first principles.