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To recapitulate, psychology does not deny absolute laws of aesthetics and ethics, provided they are seen to be in another sphere, but psychology itself is confined to the empirical realm, to empirical laws only.","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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Nun sagt er zu der Frage, wie es stehe mit dem Begriff der Verantwortlichkeit: «Dieser widerspricht in der Tat den Ergebnissen der physiologischen Psychologie. Diese lehrte: unser Handeln ist streng necessitiert» - das heißt, absolut notwendig im physischen Sinn -, «das notwendige Produkt unserer Empfindungen und Erinnerungsbilder. Man könnte also dem Menschen eine schlechte Handlung ebensowenig als Schuld zurechnen wie einer Blume ihre Häßlichkeit. Die Handlung bleibt deshalb - auch psychologisch - schlecht, aber sie ist zunächst keine Schuld. Der Begriff der Schuld und der Verantwortlichkeit ist -um den Gegensatz kurz zu bezeichnen - ein religiöser oder sozialer. Wir können daher hier von demselben absehen. 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