{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 1/l06/p001","lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In June 1794, Johann Gottlieb Fichte sent the first sections of his *Theory of Science*[^1] to Goethe. The latter wrote back to the philosopher on June 24: “As far as I am concerned, I will owe you the greatest thanks if you finally reconcile me with the philosophers, with whom I can never do without and with whom I have never been able to unite myself.” What the poet is here seeking from Fichte is what he sought earlier from Spinoza and later from Schelling and Hegel: a philosophical world view that would be in accordance with his way of thinking. None of the philosophical directions with which he became acquainted, however, brought the poet complete satisfaction.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Goethe's Way of Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l06/p001","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1988"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l06/p001"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l06/p001","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l06","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 1/l06/p001","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l06/p001"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":100,"en_words":117,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 1/l06/p001","passage_number":1,"text":"*Johann Gottlieb Fichte* sandte im Juni 1794 die ersten Bogen seiner «Wissenschaftslehre» an Goethe. Dieser schrieb hierauf am 24. Juni an den Philosophen: «Was mich betrifft, werde ich Ihnen den größten Dank schuldig sein, wenn Sie mich endlich mit den Philosophen versöhnen, die ich nie entbehren und mit denen ich mich niemals vereinigen konnte.» [WA 10, 167] Was der Dichter hier bei Fichte, das hatte er früher bei Spinoza gesucht; später suchte er es bei Schelling und Hegel: eine philosophische Weltansicht, die seiner Denkweise gemäß wäre. Völlige Befriedigung aber brachte dem Dichter keine der philosophischen Richtungen, die er kennen lernte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l06/p001"}],"english":["GA 1/l06/p001"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":100,"en_words":117,"ratio":1.17,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2523,"original_word_count":2219,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 1/l06/p001"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}