{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 125/1910-08-26/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we speak only of the intellectual side – I know everything that can be objected to what is said now, but the matter will present itself to everyone who penetrates into the spiritual development of the 19th century – if we start with the purely intellectual, then we have to say that in terms of the sharpness of thought, in terms of the crystallization of thought in the soul, a certain peak of philosophical development was indeed reached through Hegel. One misunderstands Hegel when one speaks so carelessly about him, as his opponents in the second half of the 19th century did. They imagined that Hegel's aim was to spin out everything he had to say about the world from pure thought of content. They just did not take into account that Hegel nowhere claims that the human subject wants to lift anything of real world content out of pure thought. One must take into account that Hegel's standpoint is that thought itself, the inwardly living thought, the active and productive thought, is what draws the content of the world out of itself, and that we, with our cognitive subject, are nothing more than the scene on which thought works. If we take the matter as it actually presents itself in the course of intellectual life, we must say: in this tendency of Hegel's lies his entire monumental greatness. But it also means that this is the source of the entire weakness of Hegelian philosophy. Its greatness lies in the fact that Hegel can, in a previously unimagined way, become the teacher of a discipline of thinking for anyone who really wants to penetrate with him, and that we cannot acquire this discipline in any other way. The Theosophist in particular should acquire this strong discipline of thinking. After all, a vast number of errors and misconceptions arise simply because our thinking cannot achieve the crystalline clarity of a discipline of thought, such as can be learned through the Hegelian system. One can educate oneself through the Hegelian system. One should, so to speak, be imbued with the results of such a discipline of thought in every lecture where one feels a responsibility towards knowledge and truth. One should get into the habit of never using a word in any context that has not first been felt and experienced by us in its full scope and content. When one, penetrating through what seems so abstract, so dry and sober to many, penetrating through Hegel's logic, inculcates oneself with this discipline of thinking, then one never speaks of the word being, becoming , existence as in such places where these words may be inserted in the overall structure of the lecture, because one has first followed the entire development of the content of such concepts, from the simplest, most empty concepts to the most substantial. In this inner discipline of thought, the philosophical lecturer of today and all of today's literature are, in fact, very far removed. I could easily show you that in world-famous contemporary philosophical books, the authors are not even able to capture the content of a concept concisely and accurately in three lines, and then after three lines, they use a concept that they used before in a completely different way. It is quite natural that an inner confusion of the whole structure, which is our thoughts, must then occur. It would be easy, as I said, to prove this to you with contemporary world-famous philosophical books.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Sie haben sich vorgestellt, daß Hegel darauf ausgehe, alles aus dem reinen Gedanken an Inhalt herauszuspinnen, was er über die Welt zu sagen hat. Sie haben nur nicht berücksichtigt: Hegel erhebt nirgends die Prätention, daß das menschliche Subjekt irgend etwas von wirklichem Weltinhalt aus dem reinen Gedanken herausheben wolle. Man muß berücksichtigen: Hegel steht durchaus auf dem Standpunkt, daß der Gedanke selbst, der innerlich lebendige Gedanke, der regsame und produktive Gedanke es ist, der aus sich heraus den Welteninhalt holt, und daß wir mit unserem Erkenntnissubjekt nichts anderes sind als der Schauplatz, auf dem der Gedanke arbeitet. Wenn wir die Sache so, wie sie sich tatsächlich im Verlauf des geistigen Lebens darstellt, nehmen, so müssen wir sagen: In dieser Tendenz Hegels liegt seine ganze monumentale Größe. Aber auch: es liegt die ganze Schwäche der Hegelschen Philosophie darin. Die Größe darin, daß Hegel für jeden, der sich wirklich mit ihm durchdringen will, in einer vorher schier ungeahnten Weise der Lehrer für eine Disziplin des Denkens werden kann, wie wir sie uns auf keinem anderen Weg erwerben können. Gerade der Theosoph sollte sich diese starke Disziplin des Denkens aneignen. Kommt doch eine Unsumme von Irrtümern, von unrichtigen Überzeugungen einfach dadurch zustande, daß unser Denken es nicht bis zur kristallenen Klarheit einer denkerischen Disziplin bringen kann, wie man durch das Hegelsche System sie lernen kann. Man kann sich durch das Hegelsche System erziehen. Man sollte sozusagen in jedem Vortrag, wo man die Verantwortung gegenüber Erkenntnis und Wahrheit fühlt, von den Ergebnissen solcher denkerischen Disziplin durchdrungen sein. Man sollte sich angewöhnen, an keiner Stelle ein Wort zu gebrauchen, das nicht seinem vollen Umfang und Inhalt nach von uns zuerst empfunden und erlebt worden ist. Wenn man, vordringend durch das, was manchem so abstrakt, so trocken und nüchtern erscheint, vordringend durch die Hegelsche Logik, sich diese Disziplin des Denkens einimpft, dann kommt man dazu, niemals zu sprechen von dem Wort Sein, Werden, Dasein als an solchen Stellen, wo in dem gesamten Gefüge des Vortrags diese Worte eingefügt werden dürfen, weil man zuerst den ganzen Werdegang des Inhaltes solcher Begriffe, von den einfachsten, leersten Begriffen bis zu den inhaltsvollsten verfolgt hat. Von dieser inneren Disziplin des Gedankens ist im Grunde genommen auch der philosophisch Vortragende von heute und die ganze heutige Literatur ungeheuer weit entfernt. Ich könnte Ihnen leicht den Nachweis führen, daß in weltberühmten philosophischen Büchern der Gegenwart die Autoren nicht einmal in der Lage sind, über drei Zeilen hin prägnant und genau den Inhalt eines Begriffes festzuhalten und nach drei Zeilen bereits einen Begriff, den sie vorher gebraucht haben, in ganz anderer Art wieder gebrauchen. Daß dann eine innere Verworrenheit des ganzen Gebäudes eintreten muß, welches unsere Gedanken darstellen, erscheint ganz selbstverständlich. Es wäre, wie gesagt, ein leichtes, Ihnen das an weltberühmten philosophischen Büchern der Gegenwart nachzuweisen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":562,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/125/1910-08-26/p008"}],"english":["GA 125/1910-08-26/p008"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":562,"en_words":581,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7932,"original_word_count":7595,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Paths and Goals of Spiritual Man","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA125/English/SOL2024/19100826p01.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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