{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 1/l06/p015","lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I have not arrived at my world view only through the study of Goethe or even of Hegelianism, for example. I took my start from the mechanistic-naturalistic conception of the world, but recognized that, with intensive thinking, one cannot remain there. Proceeding strictly according to natural-scientific methods, I found in objective idealism the only satisfying world view. My *epistemology*[^2] shows the way by which a kind of thinking that understands itself and is not self-contradictory arrives at this world view. I then found that this objective idealism, in its basic features, permeates the Goethean world view. Thus the elaborating of my views does, to be sure, for years now run parallel with my study of Goethe; and I have never found any conflict *in principle* between my basic views and the Goethean scientific activity. I consider my task fulfilled if I have been at least partially successful in, firstly, developing my standpoint in such a way that it can also become alive in other people, and secondly, bringing about the conviction that this standpoint really is the Goethean one.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Goethe's Way of Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":179,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l06/p015","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/p015"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l06/p015","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l06","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 1/l06/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l06/p014"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":179,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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So geht denn dann freilich der Ausbau meiner Ansichten seit Jahren parallel mit dem Studium Goethes; und ich habe nie einen *prinzipiellen* Gegensatz zwischen meinen Grundansichten und der Goetheschen wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit gefunden. Wenn es mir wenigstens teilweise gelungen ist: erstens meinen Standpunkt so zu entwickeln, daß er auch in andern lebendig wird, und zweitens die Überzeugung herbeizuführen, daß dieser Standpunkt wirklich der Goethesche ist, dann betrachte ich meine Aufgabe als erfüllt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l06/p014"}],"english":["GA 1/l06/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":151,"en_words":179,"ratio":1.19,"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. 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