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In our time, it is characteristic that of the impulses listed, the greatest value is placed on the imagination. We live in a culture of the imagination. The intellect is being developed. In Greek and Roman culture, people did not think so much, but they perceived more than people do today. Something funny, but at the same time something great, is contained in what Hebbel, the playwright, wrote in his notebook: Let us assume that Plato was reborn; then he would become a high school student and would have to read Plato in the Greek language, and the high school teacher is terribly dissatisfied because he does not understand Plato and beats him. - That is what Hebbel wanted to dramatize. Well, on the one hand it is quite comical, but on the other hand it is quite understandable. Because it is true that today the high school teacher represents much more than even the great philosopher Plato in his time. It is just that today, in a certain sense, one looks at the world shortsightedly. Today's farmer thinks more than the Greek philosopher thought. In contrast, in those days the perceptive faculty was much more developed. Man was connected with all of nature. Perception was then the same as what we now call imagination. Today, perception is no longer learned, only by those who undergo training. It is quite possible for someone to get far in what he learns in the laboratory, and yet be very inexperienced outside, unable to tell the difference between wheat and rye. So we can say that people today have a lot of imagination, but in those days they were trained in perception. Thus we can distinguish between two epochs: one of perception and one of imagination. Then a third will follow, through which the movements of the soul will be developed, which today only take place on the side. A person who begins to undergo a certain development must indeed already anticipate what general human culture is to become in later times. He must therefore foster the movements of the soul. It may easily happen that someone begins to develop their emotions towards higher worlds and then, in contact with other people, has the culture of ideas. Then he will observe that one time the right thing is felt, another time the wrong thing. A purely intellectual person will accept what is right and reject what is wrong on logical grounds. It will take a long time before a higher cultural level is reached in which one will feel a sense of pleasure in the face of what is right and a sense of displeasure in the face of what is wrong. This then gives one certainty about true and false being; for what is required is not just a conception of true and false being. We do not need long to prove a matter, for we grasp it in a moment. Today we must prove, develop. Then it will no longer be necessary to prove, but to please. Therefore, when we incarnate again, a soul culture will follow the culture of perception of the Greeks and the culture of imagination of our time. Then another culture will follow in relation to the impulses; then the will impulses will undergo a great education. Those people who will incarnate then will pursue, so to speak, a Socratic ideal. If that were not the case, a person, no matter how clever he is, could be an ideal scoundrel; it would be in vain that Hamlet wrote on his tablet that one can smile and smile and smile and yet be an out-and-out scoundrel.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":645,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-01-14/p027","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Experiences of the Supernatural","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA143/English/SOL2024/19120114p01.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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Then comes the time of the culture of feeling and after that the time of the actual morality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-01-14/p028","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Experiences of the Supernatural","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA143/English/SOL2024/19120114p01.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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Here we have to refer back to what was said before, that the faculty of perception connects us with the physical, the faculty of imagination with the astral, the emotions with the lower devachan and morality with the higher devachan.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":57,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-01-14/p029","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Experiences of the Supernatural","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA143/English/SOL2024/19120114p01.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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In unserer Zeit findet man als Charakteristisches, daß von den aufgezählten Impulsen der größte Wert auf die Vorstellungen gelegt wird. Wir leben in einer Kultur des Vorstellungslebens. Der Intellekt wird entwickelt. In der griechischen und römischen Kultur hat man nicht so viel gedacht, dafür aber mehr wahrgenommen, als es die heutigen Menschen tun. Etwas Komisches, aber gleichzeitig etwas Großartiges liegt in dem, was sich Hebbel, der Dramatiker, in sein Notizbuch schrieb: Nehmen wir an, daß Plato wiedergeboren würde; dann würde er ein Gymnasiast und müßte in der griechischen Sprache den Plato lesen, und der Gymnasiallehrer ist furchtbar unzufrieden, weil er den Plato nicht versteht, prügelt ihn. - Das wollte Hebbel dramatisieren. Nun, das ist auf der einen Seite recht komisch, aber auf der anderen recht begreiflich. Denn wahr ist, daß heute der Gymnasiallehrer viel mehr vorstellt als selbst der große Philosoph Plato zu seiner Zeit. Man sieht nur die Welt in gewisser Weise heute kurzsichtig an. Der heutige Bauer denkt mehr, als der griechische Philosoph gedacht hat. Dagegen wurde dazumal das Wahrnehmungsvermögen viel mehr ausgebildet. Der Mensch hing mit der ganzen Natur zusammen. Die Wahrnehmung war da dasselbe, was jetzt bei uns die Vorstellung ist. Heute wird ja das Wahrnehmen gar nicht mehr gelernt, nur von denen, die eine Schulung durchmachen. Es ist durchaus möglich, daß einer in dem, was er laboratoriumsmäßig lernt, weit kommt, und doch draußen sehr unerfahren ist, den Weizen nicht vom Roggen unterscheiden kann. So daß wir sagen können, daß die Menschen heute viel Vorstellungsvermögen haben, damals aber im Wahrnehmen geschult wurden. Daher können wir zwei Epochen unterscheiden: eine Epoche der Wahrnehmungen und eine der Vorstellungen. Dann wird eine dritte folgen, durch die werden die Gemütsbewegungen ausgebildet sein, die heute nur nebenher gehen. Ein Mensch, der beginnt, eine gewisse Entwickelung durchzumachen, muß in der Tat schon vorausnehmen, was allgemeine Menschenkultur in späterer Zeit werden soll. Er muß also die Gemütsbewegungen fördern. Da kann es leicht vorkommen, daß irgendein Mensch den Anfang gemacht hat mit der Ausbildung seiner Gemütsbewegungen nach höheren Welten hin und dann in Berührung mit den anderen Menschen die Vorstellungskultur hat. Dann wird er die Beobachtung machen, daß einmal das Richtige, ein andermal das Falsche gefühlt wurde. Ein bloß intellektueller Mensch wird aus logischen Gründen das Richtige annehmen und das Falsche abweisen. Es wird lange dauern, bis eine höhere Kulturstufe kommen wird, in der man gegenüber dem Richtigen ein Wohlgefallensgefühl und gegenüber dem Unrichtigen ein Mißfallensgefühl empfinden wird. Das gibt einem dann Sicherheit gegenüber dem wahren und falschen Wesen; denn verlangt wird nicht nur eine Vorstellung von wahrem und falschem Wesen. Da haben wir nicht lange zu tun, um eine Sache zu beweisen, da wir sie im Nu erfassen. Heute müssen wir beweisen, entwickeln. Dann wird man nicht mehr zu beweisen brauchen, sondern zu gefallen. Daher wird auf die Wahrnehmungskultur der Griechen und die Vorstellungskultur unserer Zeit eine Seelenkultur folgen, wenn wir uns wieder inkarnieren. Dann folgt noch eine Kultur in bezug auf die Impulse; dann werden die Willensimpulse eine große Ausbildung erfahren. Diejenigen Menschen, die da inkarniert werden, werden verfolgen, was sozusagen ein sokratisches Ideal ist. Wäre das nicht, so könnte ein Mensch, der noch so klug ist, ein idealer Schurke sein; umsonst hätte Hamlet auf seine Schreibtafel geschrieben, daß einer lächeln und immer lächeln und doch ein ausgemachter Schurke sein kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":587,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-01-14/p027"},{"locus":"GA 143/1912-01-14/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Auf die Epoche der Gemütsbewegungen folgt eine Epoche ausgeprägter Moralität. Da wird sich, wie die okkulten Forschungen zeigen, noch ein ganz besonderer Fall darstellen. Nehmen wir an, es würden die Leute immer klüger und klüger werden. Man kann es werden nach der Art der heutigen Vorstellungsweise. Man kann sogar seine Klugheit brauchen, um böse Taten zu inszenieren. Aber merkwürdigerweise wird in unserer übernächsten Epoche dieses stattfinden, daß Schlechtigkeit der Willensimpulse lähmend wirken wird auf die Intellektualität! Das wird das Eigentümliche der moralistischen Kulturepoche sein, daß die Immoralität die Kraft haben wird, die Intellektualität abzutöten. Ein Mensch dieser Epoche muß sich deshalb so weiter entwickeln, daß er mit seiner Moralität seiner Intellektualität nachkommen muß. Wir können also sagen: Wir haben die griechischrömische Kultur als Zeit der Wahrnehmungskultur, die unsrige als Zeit der intellektuellen. Dann kommt die Zeit der Gefühlskultur und darauf die Zeit der eigentlichen Moralität.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":145,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-01-14/p028"},{"locus":"GA 143/1912-01-14/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Nun ist es interessant zu beobachten, wie ein wichtiger Impuls auf die Menschen wirkt in diesen aufeinanderfolgenden Kulturepochen. Da müssen wir uns auf das vorher Gesagte beziehen, daß das Wahrnehmungsvermögen uns verbindet mit dem Physischen, das Vorstellungsvermögen mit dem Astralischen, die Gemütsbewegungen mit dem niederen Devachan und die Moralität mit dem höheren Devachan.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":53,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/143/1912-01-14/p029"}],"beads":[{"from":[27],"to":[27],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[28],"to":[28],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[29],"to":[29],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}