{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p051","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here again the concepts freedom and necessity come very close together. It might sometimes have seemed as though I was only playing with the words “dreaming and intoxication.” That was most certainly not the case. You can find individual examples, and I could tell you many, many more, of the way people speak, as though in a kind of dream, about outer reality. For instance, a particular objection is often raised against what I say in anthroposophical lectures. A pet remark is, “But how can you prove that?” meaning that people require to have what is presented to them proved by comparing it with outer reality. They assume that an idea is valid only if one can point to its physical counterpart, and that this external counterpart is the proof. This is such an extremely obvious idea, that people think they are great logicians if they say, “You see, it all depends on being able to prove that a concept links up with its counterpart in outer reality.”","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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Es könnte zuweilen scheinen, als ob ich mit dem Worte «Traum und Rausch» nur gespielt hätte. Ich habe wahrhaftig nicht bloß gespielt. Man kann im einzelnen nachweisen - und ich könnte Ihnen vieles, vieles anführen -, wie heute die Leute wirklich wie in einer Art von Traum über die äußere Wirklichkeit reden und über die Wirklichkeit besonders im ganzen reden, nicht bloß über die äußere Wirklichkeit. Zum Beispiel wird oftmals ein bestimmter Einwand gegen dasjenige gemacht, was man auf unserem Gebiete der Anthroposophie, der Geisteswissenschaft, vorzutragen hat. Ein sehr beliebter Ausspruch ist dann: Ja, wie kannst du denn das beweisen? Das heißt, die Leute verlangen, daß das, was vorgebracht wird, mit der äußeren Wirklichkeit durch einen Vergleich bewiesen wird. Sie setzen dabei voraus, daß ein Begriff nur dann gilt, wenn man für ihn die äußere Wirklichkeit aufweisen kann, und daß der Beweis darin bestehen würde, daß man die äußere Wirklichkeit aufweist. 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