{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 161/1915-01-10/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then comes the fourth evolutionary period; the independent rule of thought from the external thought-perception, the independent creation of thought from within: free creation of thought, that free creation that comes to light so magnificently in the thought-structures of Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, Decartes, and their successors, Leibniz etc. If we follow up these edifices of thought we observe that they are produced entirely out of the inner being. And everywhere we find that these thinkers had an intense desire to prove that what they created in themselves had also real validity externally. Spinoza creates a wonderful ideal-edifice. But the question arises: Now is that all merely created within, in the human spirit, or has it a significance in the world outside? Giordano Bruno, and Leibniz create the monad which is supposed to be a reality. How does something thought out by man as monad exist at the same time as a reality in the outer world? All the questions which have arisen since the 16th, 17th century are concerned with the endeavour to bring free thought-creation into harmony with external world existence. Man feels isolated, abandoned by the world in his free thought creation. We are still standing in the midst of this.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Perception of the Nature of Thought","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-01-10","location":null,"word_count":203,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/161/1915-01-10/p031","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"M. 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Die Frage entsteht aber: Ja, ist das alles bloß drinnen im menschlichen Geiste geschaffen, oder hat es eine Bedeutung da draußen in der Welt? Giordano Bruno, Leibniz schaffen die Monade. Die Monade soll etwas Reales sein. Wie kommt dasjenige, was die Menschen ausdenken als Monade, dazu, da draußen in der Welt etwas Reales zu sein? Alle Fragen, die seit dem 16., 17. Jahrhundert heraufgekommen sind, stehen noch immer unter dem Eindruck dieses Strebens, das freie Gedankenschaffen in Einklang zu bringen mit dem Weltendasein draußen. Der Mensch fühlt sich vereinsamt, verlassen von der Welt in seinem freien Gedankenschaffen. 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