{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What does the fact that we know something about the *I* and that we come to the point of naming it actually tell us about the *I*? Philosophers often say, “Human beings have direct certainty of the *I*. They know firsthand that the *I* exists.” In fact, there are philosophers who imagine they know merely from philosophy that the *I* is a primary being, that it cannot be dispersed or die. Yet anyone with sound thinking will immediately respond to this philosophical opinion by saying, “However much you prove to us that the *I* cannot be dissolved and therefore cannot fade away, it is quite enough that after death, probably for eternity, the *I* is to be in the same condition it is in between falling asleep and waking up.” Then of course we would no longer be able to speak of an *I*. Philosophers are mistaken if they imagine there is any reality in the *I* they speak of. If we speak of something that really exists, we are speaking of something entirely different.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The I, Will, and Human Evolution's Spiritual Crisis","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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Aber jeder, der gesund denkt, wird dieser philosophischen Meinung sogleich entgegentreten: Nun, wenn du uns auch noch so sehr beweisest, daß dieses Ich nicht aufgelöst werden kann, also nicht dem Verfall entgegengehen kann, so genügt es ja schon, daß dieses Ich nach dem Tode etwa für ewige Zeiten in dem Zustand wäre, in dem es zum Beispiel vom Einschlafen bis zum Aufwachen ist. Dann würde man selbstverständlich nicht mehr von diesem Ich sprechen können. Die Philosophen irren sich damit, wenn sie glauben, in dem Ich, von dem sie reden können, sei etwas Reales vorhanden. 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