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It still clung to the external. The thinking of Thales, of the first philosopher was still influenced by the etheric body. They created their Water—Air—Fire—Philosophies out of their temperament, and the temperament lives in the etheric body. One can therefore say that the philosophy of the sentient body goes into the philosophy of the etheric body. Then we come into the Christian period. The Christ- Impulse penetrates into the sentient soul. Philosophy is experienced inwardly but in connection with what one can feel and believe; the influences of the sentient soul are present. In the third period, that of scholasticism, the intellectual or mind-soul is the essential element of philosophical development. Now the development of philosophy follows a different course from that of human evolution in general. 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Wenn wir zurückgehen in die Gedankenwahrnehmung, wie sie war bei den alten griechischen Philosophen, dann müssen wir sagen: Das philosophische Denken im alten Griechenland wirkt so, daß - trotzdem im allgemeinen im alten Griechenland die Zeit der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele ist dieses alte Denken noch ein Wahrnehmungsdenken ist, tief beeinflußt noch ist von der Empfindungsseele, sogar noch von dem Empfindungsleibe, dem astralischen Leibe. Es haftet noch an dem Äußeren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":79,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/161/1915-01-10/p032"},{"locus":"GA 161/1915-01-10/p033","passage_number":33,"text":"Das Denken des Thales, der ersten Philosophen, war noch beeinflußt von dem Ätherleibe. Das Temperament sitzt im Ätherleibe und aus dem Temperament heraus schaffen sie ihre Wasser-, Luft-, Feuerphilosophien; so daß man sagen kann: der Philosophie des Empfindungsleibes geht eine Philosophie des Ätherleibes voraus. - Dann kommen wir in die christliche Zeit hinein. Der christliche Impuls dringt in die Empfindungsseele. Die Philosophie wird innerlich erlebt, innerlich empfunden, aber in Zusammenhang mit dem, was man glauben, was man fühlen kann; es sind da die Einflüsse der Empfindungsseele vorhanden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/161/1915-01-10/p033"},{"locus":"GA 161/1915-01-10/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"In der dritten Epoche, in der Epoche der Scholastik, da haben wir als das wesentliche Element des philosophischen Werdens die Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele. Sie sehen, das philosophische Werden geht einen anderen Gang als die allgemeine Menschheitsentwickelung. Und jetzt erst, seit dem 16. 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Und wenn Sie die Beschreibungen lesen, die von den einzelnen Epochen gegeben werden, so werden Sie, wenn Sie ordentliche Anthroposophen sind, sehr klar auf das hingewiesen werden, was ich hier links (siehe Schema) angeschrieben habe. Es entwickelt sich alles etwa so, wie sich der Mensch selber entwickelt: vom Ätherleib zum Empfindungsleibe, zur Empfindungsseele, zur Verstandesseele, zur Bewußtseinsseele. Wir verfolgen einen Gang, wie den Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung, aber anders geordnet. Es ist nicht der Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung, es ist etwas anderes. Wesen entwickeln sich, und die benützen die menschlichen Kräfte in der Empfindungsseele, in der Verstandesseele und so weiter. 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