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In this case I will arrive at a quite specific concept, \\(a\\), of the friendship between the two people. I now look at two other people, \\(C\\) and \\(D\\), from the same point of view. I arrive at another concept, \\(b\\), of this friendship. Now I can go further and relate these two concepts of friendship to each other. What remains for me, when I disregard the concrete element I have gained, is the *concept of friendship in general*. But I can arrive at this in an even more real way, when I look at two other people, \\(E\\) and \\(F\\), from the same point of view, and likewise two people \\(G\\) and \\(H\\). In this, as in innumerable other cases, I can obtain the concept of *friendship in general*. But all these concepts, in their essential nature, are identical to each other; and when I look at them from the same point of view, it then turns out that I have found a unity. I have returned again to where I took my start.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"16. Goethe as Thinker and Investigator","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":315,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p072","alignment_confidence":"high","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/l16/p072"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p072","paragraph_aligned":true}],"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 1/l16/p072","passage_number":72,"text":"*Daher kann der Raum nur drei Dimensionen haben* *.* Was wir hier mit der Raumvorstellung unternommen haben, ist eigentlich nur ein spezieller Fall der von uns immer angewendeten Methode, wenn wir an die Dinge betrachtend herantreten. Wir stellen konkrete Objekte unter einen allgemeinen Gesichtspunkt. Dadurch gewinnen wir Begriffe von den Einzelheiten; diese Begriffe betrachten wir dann selbst wieder unter den gleichen Gesichtspunkten, so daß wir dann nur mehr die Begriffe der Begriffe vor uns haben; verbinden wir auch diese noch, dann verschmelzen sie in jene ideelle Einheit, die mit nichts anderem mehr als mit sich selbst unter einen Gesichtspunkt gebracht werden könnte. Nehmen wir ein besonderes Beispiel. Ich lerne zwei Menschen kennen: A und B. Ich betrachte sie unter dem Gesichtspunkte der Freundschaft. In diesem Falle werde ich einen ganz bestimmten Begriff a von der Freundschaft der beiden Leute bekommen. Ich betrachte nun zwei andere Menschen, C und D, unter dem gleichen Gesichtspunkte. Ich bekomme einen anderen Begriff b von dieser Freundschaft. Nun kann ich weiter gehen und diese beiden Freundschaftsbegriffe aufeinander beziehen. Was mir da übrig bleibt, wenn ich von dem Konkreten, das ich gewonnen habe, absehe, ist der *Begriff der Freundschaft überhaupt.* Diesen kann ich aber realiter auch erhalten, wenn ich die Menschen E und F unter dem gleichen Gesichtspunkte und ebenso G und H betrachte. In diesem wie in unzähligen anderen Fällen kann ich den Begriff der *Freundschaft überhaupt* erhalten. Alle diese Begriffe sind aber dem Wesen nach miteinander identisch; und wenn ich sie unter dem gleichen Gesichtspunkte betrachte, dann stellt sich heraus, daß ich eine Einheit gefunden habe. 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