The Syllabus of Pius IX.
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principles, to attain to the true science of even the most abstruse dogmas; provided only that such dogmas be proposed to reason itself as its object.
Letters to the Archbishop of Munich, Dec. 11th, 1862, and Dec. 21st, 1863.
10. As the philosopher is one thing, and philosophy another, so it is the right and duty of the philosopher to subject himself to the authority which he shall have proved to be true; but philosophy neither can nor ought to submit to any such authority.
Ibid, Dec. 11th, 1862.
11. The Church not only ought never to pass judgment on philosophy, but ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy, leaving it to correct itself.
Ibid, Dec. 21st, 1863.
12. The decrees of the Apostolic See and of the Roman Congregations impede the true progress of science. Ibid.
13. The method and principles by which the old scholastic doctors cultivated theology are no longer suitable to the demands of our times and to the progress of the sciences. Ibid.
14. Philosophy is to be treated without taking any account of supernatural revelation. Ibid.
N.B.—To the rationalistic system belong in great part the errors of Anthony Günther, condemned in the letter to the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne, Eximiam tuam, June 15th, 1847, and in that to the Bishop of Breslau, Dolore haud mediocri, April 30th, 1860.
