{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 151/1914-01-21/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"All these conceptions of the world that I have described and written down for you really exist, and they can be maintained. And it is possible to bring forward the most ingenious reasons for each of them; it is possible to adopt any one of them and with ingenious reasons to refute the others. In between these conceptions of the world one can think out yet others, but they differ only in degree from the leading types I have described, and can be traced back to them. If one wishes to learn about the web and woof of the world, then one must know that the way to it is through these twelve points of entry. There is not merely one conception of the world that can be defended, or justified, but there are twelve. And one must admit that just as many good reasons can be adduced for each and all of them as for any particular one. The world cannot be rightly considered from the one-sided standpoint of one single conception, one single mode of thought; the world discloses itself only to someone who knows that one must look at it from all sides. Just as the sun—if we go by the Copernican conception of the universe—passes through the signs of the Zodiac in order to illuminate the earth from twelve different points, so we must not adopt one standpoint, the standpoint of Idealism, or Sensationalism, or Phenomenalism, or any other conception of the world with a name of this kind; we must be in a position to go all round the world and accustom ourselves to the twelve different standpoints from which it can be contemplated. In terms of thought, all twelve standpoints are fully justifiable. For a thinker who can penetrate into the nature of thought, there is not one single conception of the world, but twelve that can be equally justified—so far justified as to permit of equally good reasons being thought out for each of them. There are twelve such justified conceptions of the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Twelve Worldviews: The Zodiac of Philosophical Standpoints","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Und es ist möglich, für jede einzelne der Weltanschauungen die scharfsinnigsten Gründe vorzubringen, es ist möglich, sich auf den Standpunkt jeder dieser Weltanschauungen zu stellen und mit scharfsinnigen Gründen die anderen Weltanschauungen zu widerlegen. Man kann zwischen diesen Weltanschauungen noch andere ausdenken; die sind aber nur gradweise von den angeführten verschieden und lassen sich auf die Haupttypen zurückführen. Will man das Gewebe der Welt kennenlernen, dann muß man wissen, daß man es durch diese zwölf Eingangstore kennenlernt. Es gibt nicht eine Weltanschauung, die sich verteidigen läßt, die berechtigt ist, sondern es gibt zwölf Weltanschauungen. Und man muß zugeben: Gerade so viele gute Gründe wie für die eine Weltanschauung, so viele gute Gründe lassen sich für jede andere der zwölf Weltanschauungen vorbringen. Die Welt läßt sich nicht von dem einseitigen Standpunkte einer Weltanschauung, eines Gedankens aus betrachten, sondern die Welt enthüllt sich nur dem, der weiß, daß man um sie herumgehen muß. Genau ebenso, wie die Sonne, auch wenn wir die kopernikanische Weltanschauung zugrunde legen, durch die Tierkreiszeichen geht, um von zwölf verschiedenen Punkten aus die Erde zu beleuchten, ebenso muß man nicht auf eine Standpunkt - auf den Standpunkt des Idealismus, des Sensualismus, des Phänomenalismus oder irgendeiner Weltanschauung, die einen solchen Namen tragen kann - sich stellen, sondern man muß in der Lage sein, um die Welt herumgehen zu können und sich einleben zu können in die zwölf verschiedenen Standpunkte, von denen aus man die Welt betrachten kann. Denkerisch sind alle zwölf verschiedenen Standpunkte voll berechtigt. Nicht eine Weltanschauung gibt es für den Denker, der in die Natur des Denkens eindringen kann, sondern zwölf gleichberechtigte, insofern gleichberechtigte, als sich gleich gute Gründe vom Denken aus für jede vorbringen lassen. Zwölf solche gleichberechtigte Weltanschauungen gibt es. Von diesem dadurch gewonnenen Gesichtspunkte aus wollen wir morgen weiter reden, damit wir uns von der denkerischen Betrachtung des Menschen zu der Betrachtung des Kosmischen hinaufschwingen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/151/1914-01-21/p042"}],"english":["GA 151/1914-01-21/p040","GA 151/1914-01-21/p041","GA 151/1914-01-21/p042"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":328,"en_words":376,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.96,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6302,"original_word_count":6568,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Charles Davy","identified_edition":"RSP1961","book_title":"Human and Cosmic Thought (1961)","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/19140121p01.html","evidence":"edition_cover_credit","note":"The lecture's own page names no translator; the cover of the book it was taken from (https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA151/English/RSP1961/HuCoTh_index.html) lists it and names the translator. 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