{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 1/l06/p014","lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Only the active person, indeed only the selflessly active person who seeks no recompense for his activity, fulfills his destiny. It is foolish to want to be recompensed for one's activity; there is no true recompense. Here Hartmann ought to build further. He ought to show what, with such presuppositions, can be the only mainspring of all our actions. This can, when the prospect of a goal one is striving for falls away, only be the selfless devotion to the object to which one is dedicating one's activity; *this can only be love*. Only an action out of love can be a moral one. In science, the idea, and in our action, *love*, must be our guiding star. And this brings us back to Goethe. “The main thing for the active person is that he do what is right; he should not worry about whether the right occurs.” “Our whole feat consists in giving up our existence in order to exist” ( *Aphorisms in Prose*).","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Goethe's Way of Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l06/p014","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/p014"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l06/p014","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l06","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 1/l06/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l06/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":158,"en_words":165,"ratio":1.04,"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/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Nur der Tätige und zwar der selbstlos Tätige, der mit seiner Tätigkeit keinen Lohn anstrebt, erfüllt seine Bestimmung. Es ist töricht, für seine Tätigkeit belohnt sein zu wollen; es gibt keinen wahren Lohn. Hier sollte Hartmann weiterbauen. Er sollte zeigen, was denn unter solchen Voraussetzungen die einzige Triebfeder aller unserer Handlungen sein kann. Es kann, wenn die Aussicht auf ein erstrebtes Ziel wegfällt, nur die selbstlose Hingabe an das Objekt sein, dem man seine Tätigkeit widmet, *es kann nur die Liebe sein.* Nur eine Handlung aus Liebe kann eine sittliche sein. Die *Idee* muß in der Wissenschaft, die *Liebe* im Handeln unser Leitstern sein. Und damit sind wir wieder bei Goethe angelangt. «Dem tätigen Menschen kommt es darauf an, daß er das Rechte tue, ob das Rechte geschehe, soll ihn nicht kümmern.» «Unser ganzes Kunststück besteht darin, daß wir unsere Existenz aufgeben, um zu existieren.» («Sprüche in Prosa»; Natw. Schr., 4. Bd., 2. Abt., S. 464 u. 441.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l06/p013"}],"english":["GA 1/l06/p014"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":158,"en_words":165,"ratio":1.04,"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/p013"],"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."}}