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dialectical, as no .i:hir"d. d-isiinct el ement arises frorn
i;he conflicts. It imolies rather a re-ins'Ûaternent of
bhe original conviction in net¡ terms " Ihe rnoiive
force for the conrinuation of the Þrocess is con-
stituied b)' ih.e tension or gap bett'¡een the aim a-nd- the
resuli, 'I'his process, i'¡hicir operates both on the
nhr¡si e,ql :nd c,--i -j +,r-r I ^-'Õl q. i s n]^êsenied aS
IJIrJÐIUa! arrq üljrl.J\ruO.I IçvçIù, JÐ y¿Epurr
Faracelsusr encounter i"¡ith ti^¡o la.rge areas of experience:
ihe r,'orld oÍ' 1-heorj,es as exernplified by his
êa,í)er-i enee i n rrni r¡ar.q-i f i o. çAUVI ¿ç¡IUV ¿IT
anCi hiS eXOefiençe aS
baNtIe-surgeon -in ¡rar anC- cloctc¡: rluring pesiilence.
Paracelsu.s? introducticn to scholasticism,
v¡hich all i;oo Quickl¡r reveals its ¿irid core, is a
disillusionment of traumatic ,oronortions. At no õime
is hi s r,,¡orld rnore painfull)¡ torn apart anci scar:red- a-s
after his irresponsirrle interjectiou clu-ri-ng a debate
i n '¡liibi nsen when the irrelevant quota'bion ¿ uv¿!:hv4
he utters
cuts through the icy sophistry of the learned facult¡r"
't-hat his brief ancl jocular participa'Ûion in the di.s-
pufaiion is not at once discredited serves only to
shatter hi s vision of men lvhom he had thought ivorthy
of esieern. Yet ihis ne,qative reactj-on ha.s iNs ,oositive
role¡ âS is .i;he câSe for al-} experience' Paracelsu-s ngv'r
realises rvith great a.nd paíníul clari-t,¡' ihat these