{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 161/1915-05-01/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"On a higher level we can say the same of men who are like Otto Liebmann. They come to philosophy, to the land of the spirit through conditions holding good in our world. Someone writes a thesis, a book, is then sent as teacher to a grammar school and, when proving himself to be a thinker, he is sent on to a university. Philosophising is world-courtesy, just world-courtesy—and there is no need for any call to the land of the spirit. One goes to the door, even goes inside, and then falls asleep; not immediately like the satiated concert-goer, who sleeps without even being tired, through lack of interested consciousness in the subject—but the philosopher cannot wake up to Imaginative consciousness. If it is impossible for people to awake to Imaginative consciousness then the moment anything is said about the spiritual world they fall asleep. In other words, it is too difficult for them to take in anything about spiritual science. It is therefore not without danger to make this assertion, for people will say: So you are the people who are making a study of what to other men, to men of consequence, is so difficult!—Since we are conscious of the difficulty, however, we shall not be too arrogant. For we shall know that the very points about which we ought to agree will be attacked by the world because people refuse to embark upon so difficult an affair—for the very reason that they find it too difficult.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Three Kinds of Clairvoyance and Spiritual Consciousness","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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Sie kommen zur Philosophie, ins Land des Geistes durch Zusammenhänge, die in unserer Welt sind. Man schreibt eine Dissertation, ein Buch, dann wird man als Dozent auf das Gymnasium geschickt; man erweist sich als guter Denker und wird dann auf die Universität geschickt. Das Philosophische ist maskierte Weltcourtoisie. Man braucht nicht den inneren Ruf nach dem Lande des Geistes zu haben, Weltcourtoisie ist das. Man geht bis zum Tore, geht auch hinein, und schläft ein; schläft nicht gleich - wie der satte Rentier, der zum Konzert geführt wird, schläft, auch wenn er gar nicht ermüdet ist —, man schläft ein wie durch einen Mangel an Interesse für das Gegenstandsbewußtsein; aber man kann nicht aufwachen für das imaginative Bewußtsein. Ist es einem unmöglich aufzuwachen für das imaginative Bewußtsein, so schläft man sogleich ein in dem Augenblicke, wo etwas erzählt wird von der geistigen Welt. Mit anderen Worten: es ist den Leuten zu schwer, von der Geisteswissenschaft etwas aufzunehmen. Und es ist deshalb nicht so ganz ungefährlich das festzustellen, weil die Menschen nun sagen: Also seid Ihr diejenigen, die das betreiben, was anderen Menschen, bedeutenden Menschen so beschwerlich ist! - Wir werden aber, da wir uns der Schwierigkeit bewußt sind, nicht gerade hochmütig werden. Aber wir werden auch wissen, daß dasjenige, worin wir uns begegnen müssen, deshalb von der Welt bekämpft wird, weil die Menschen sich nicht einlassen wollen auf so schwierige Sachen, eben weil sie ihnen zu schwierig sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":251,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/161/1915-05-01/p023"}],"english":["GA 161/1915-05-01/p023"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":251,"en_words":249,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5676,"original_word_count":6145,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRZ140","book_title":"Meditation and Concentration: Three Kinds of Clairvoyance","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA161/English/LRZ140/19150501p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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