{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 108/1908-11-13/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We have pointed out what the soul does inasmuch as it continues mobile in the network of concepts. It begins to spin concept to concept in the sense of the dialectic method. It leads man from concept to concept. Granted that we have to begin somewhere, then we pass on from concept to concept. This must give as a result the sum of all concepts. They would constitute the sum of all concepts, which in the world-all are adapted below to the sense world and upwards to the super-sensible world as well. In the widest sense of the word one terms all these self-mobile concepts, adapted to the two worlds, “the Categories”. Whence it follows that at bottom of the whole human network of concepts is composed of the categories alone. With the same justice one might say: all concepts are categories, as one might say: all categories are concepts. One has, in truth, habitually called the weightiest, the radical concepts, the nodal points of the concepts, Categories. These more important concepts, following Aristotle, are called categories. But in the strict sense one can use the words ‘concept’ and ‘category’ interchangeably, so that we are justified in calling the sum of our self-mobile, self-producing concepts ‘theory of categories’. And Hegel's work—is really a system of categories.[^3] Hegel himself, of course, says this very thing: if one establishes the network of concepts in the whole ambit, one then has in it the ideas of the divine being before the creation of the world. Since we find the concepts in the world, they must have been originally established there. 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Wenn so die Seele irgendwo anfängt, einen Begriff herauszusetzen, und dann Begriff aus Begriff hervorwachsen läßt, dann würde sie die Summe aller Begriffe konstruieren, sie würde die Summe aller im Weltall sowohl nach unten an die sinnliche Welt als auch nach oben an die übersinnliche Welt angepaßten Begriffe auf diese Weise sich bilden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/108/1908-11-13/p022"},{"locus":"GA 108/1908-11-13/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Alle solche Begriffe, die durch Sich-selbst-Bewegen, durch Selbsthervorgehen eines Begriffes aus einem anderen gebildet werden und uns darstellen dabei, was sowohl der sinnlichen Welt angepaßt ist wie auch der übersinnlichen Welt, alle solche Begriffe nennt man im weitesten Umfange des Wortes «Kategorien». Kategorien sind also diejenigen Begriffe, welche durch die dialektische Methode, also durch Hervorwachsen eines Begriffes aus dem anderen, gewonnen werden. So ist also im Grunde genommen das ganze Begriffsnetz zusammmengesetzt aus Kategorien. Man könnte ebensogut sagen, alle Begriffe sind Kategorien, wie man sagen könnte, alle Kategorien sind Begriffe. Man ist freilich gewöhnt worden, den Begriff «Kategorien» für die Hauptbegriffe anzuwenden, für die Knotenpunkte, für die wichtigsten, die Stammbegriffe, namentlich weil die formale Logik immer angeknüpft hat an Aristoteles, der [als erster von Kategorien gesprochen und zehn solcher «Knotenpunkte» angegeben hat]. Im strengen Sinne kann man aber die Worte «Begriff» und «Kategorie» wechselweise gebrauchen, so daß wir die Summe aller unserer Begriffe - wenn wir richtige Begriffskonstruktionen vor uns haben, das heißt, wenn die Begriffe innerlich konstruiert und fortgebildet sind durch Selbstbewegung, wenn die Begriffe aus sich selbst herausgewachsen sind - die «Kategorienlehre» nennen können. Und das, was Hegel im ersten Teil seiner Philosophie die «Wissenschaft der Logik» nennt - Logik, von Logos herkommend, was ja auch Begriff heißt -, ist eigentlich eine Kategorienlehre. Wenn wir nur einzelne Begriffe bilden, so haben wir nicht alle Kategorien, wenn wir aber innerlich das Begriffsnetz spinnen, jeden Begriff an die richtige Stelle setzen im Gesamtorganismus der Begriffe, dann haben wir alle Kategorien. Nun hat ja Hegel selber schon gesagt: Wenn man so den ganzen Umfang des Begriffsnetzes feststelle, so habe man darin den Inhalt der Welt, wie er im Gedanken der göttlichen Wesenheit vor der Erschaffung der Welt ist. - Da wir die Begriffe in der Welt darinnen finden, müssen sie ursprünglich hineingelegt worden sein. Wenn wir den Begriffen nachgehen, so finden wir darin die Gedanken der Gottheit. 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