GA 176 · Lectures

Menschliche und menschheitliche Entwicklungswahrheiten

Truths Regarding the Development of Humans and Humanity. The Karma of Materialism

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	978-3-7274-1760-3 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
2	1982	400	the publisher's online catalog
	1982		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

18 units in the printed table of contents, about 122,049 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1964.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 29. Mai 1917	1917-05-29	Berlin	lecture	4541
ZWEITER VORTRAG Berlin, 5. Juni 1917	1917-06-05	Berlin	lecture	6698
DRITTER VORTRAG Berlin, 19. Juni 1917	1917-06-19	Berlin	lecture	8693
VIERTER VORTRAG Berlin, 26. Juni 1917	1917-06-26	Berlin	lecture	9289
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 3. Juli 1917	1917-07-03	Berlin	lecture	9213
SECHSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 10. Juli 1917	1917-07-10	Berlin	lecture	8928
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Berlin, 17.Juli 1917	1917-07-17	Berlin	lecture	8003
ACHTER VORTRAG Berlin, 24. Juli 1917	1917-07-24	Berlin	lecture	8575
Das Karma des Materialismus ERSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 31. Juli 1917	1917-07-31	Berlin	lecture	7512
ZWEITER VORTRAG Berlin, 7. August 1917	1917-08-07	Berlin	lecture	6778
DRITTER VORTRAG Berlin, 14. August 1917	1917-08-14	Berlin	lecture	5878
VIERTER VORTRAG Berlin, 21.August 1917	1917-08-21	Berlin	lecture	7099
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Berlin, 28. August 1917	1917-08-28	Berlin	lecture	6008
SECHSTER VORTRAG Berlin, 4. September 1917	1917-09-04	Berlin	lecture	5037
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Berlin, 11. September 1917	1917-09-11	Berlin	lecture	4870
ACHTER VORTRAG Berlin, 18. September 1917	1917-09-18	Berlin	lecture	6467
NEUNTER VORTRAG Berlin, 25. September 1917	1917-09-25	Berlin	lecture	6071
HINWEISE			apparatus	2389

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	17 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	17 the site's completeness audit
Words served	119773 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1964 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Aspects of Human Evolution the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page AP1987

Translator	Rita Stebbing the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1987
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
The Karma of Materialism the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table AP1985	Rita Stebbing the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1985
The Karma of Materialism the SteinerBooks catalog CW 176 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Clifford Venho, Rita Stebbing	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2022	9781621483120	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	17	12, 4, 1	431	9, 6

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	2 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	2 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Menschliche und menschheitliche Entwicklungswahrheiten (GA 176), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/176/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/176/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1987.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_176
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 a7058a949d0b8487
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1987/AspEvo_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ (the master table)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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