{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1910-05-02/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Because of this a force had been developed in the soul of man, together with the Sentient Soul, which could only have been developed through the Sentient-Soul being permeated with the ego-feeling while still quite virginal and uninfluenced by other civilisations. This permeation of the Sentient-Soul with the sense of self (the ego-sense) has grown into man's conscience. This accounts for the wonderful innocence of conscience! How does it speak? It speaks in the same way in the simplest and most primitive of men, as it does in the most complex soul. It says quite simply: that is right! that is wrong! without any theory or dogma. When it says: that is right, or that is wrong, what it tells us works with the might of an instinct or an urge. You will only find it developed in this way in the West. Therefore it throws its first rays like a rosy dawn, towards Greece and from thence towards Rome, where indeed we find it very strongly developed. We first meet with the word conscience,—conscientia—in the works of the Roman writers. Whereas among the Greeks we only find the first sporadic hints of it in Euripides, we find the Romans quite familiar with it, it had then become a word in general use. This is because of the influence of that strain of culture which came into being through the mutual inter-permeation of the Sentient-Soul and ego-feeling; for the ego-feeling, which lifts men up from the lowest to the highest, already speaks in the Sentient-Soul,—in which hitherto nothing spoke but instincts, desires and passions,—and speaks there like a voice from God, urging man to do what is right that he may press up to the higher ego.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Das ist unrecht! — Nirgends sonst finden Sie das, was sich so im Westen entwickelte, in der Art, wie wir es heute auseinandergesetzt haben. Deshalb wirft es seine ersten Strahlen wie eine Morgenröte voraus nach Griechenland und von dort nach Rom, und dort tritt es uns sogar schon sehr stark entgegen. Da finden wir bei den römischen Schriftstellern zuerst das Wort Gewissen: conscientia. Während wir es bei den Griechen nur sporadisch finden, in ersten Andeutungen bei Euripides, finden wir es bei den Römern schon sehr stark hervorgehoben, schon als allgemein gebräuchliches Wort. Das ist der Einfluß jener Kulturströmung, die dadurch entstanden ist, daßß Empfindungsseele und Ich-Gefühl sich durchdrungen haben, daß das Ich-Gefühl, das den Menschen hinaufträgt vom Niederen zum Höheren, schon in der Empfindungsseele wie eine Gottesstimme spricht, wie sonst nur Triebe, Begierden und Leidenschaften in der Empfindungsseele sprechen, und dort so spricht mit dem Drang, das Richtige zu tun, um hinaufzudringen zu dem höheren Ich.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/116/1910-05-02/p031"}],"english":["GA 116/1910-05-02/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":287,"ratio":1.1,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6884,"original_word_count":6655,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":"APC1926","book_title":"The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA116/English/APC1926/19100502p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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