{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p055","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is quite ridiculous how unable people are to think, that is to say, to think in such a way that their thinking is based on the element on which it ought to be based. I have copied out a statement Professor Ziehen makes on page 208 of these lectures, in which he wants particularly to point out that we cannot find the will that underlies an action. He puts it like this, “Thinking consists of a series of mental images, and the psychic part”—that is, the soul content—“of an action is also a series of mental images with the particular characteristic that the last link in the chain is a mental image of movement.”","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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Wer bloß den äußeren Lebenstraum beschreiben will und keinen Anspruch darauf macht, eine Weltanschauung zu bilden, der mag das tun. Aber wer eine Weltanschauung darauf baut, der bringt eine Traumanschauung. Und das können Sie sehen: wo heute der Übergang gemacht wird, da finden Sie zumeist Traumphilosophie. Es ist ganz grotesk, wie die Menschen nicht denken können, das heißt nicht denken können so, daß sie mit ihrem Denken drinnenstehen in demjenigen, in dem sie drinnenstehen sollen. So habe ich mir von Seite 208 dieser Vorlesungen von Prof. Ziehen einen Satz abgeschrieben, worin er besonders darauf aufmerksam machen will, daß man nicht auf den Willen kommen kann, der einer Handlung zugrunde liegt. Er sagt so: «Das Denken besteht aus einer Vorstellungsreihe und das Psychische» das heißt das Seelische - «an einer Handlung ist eben auch eine Vorstellungsreihe, welche nur die Besonderheit har, daß ihr letztes Glied eine Bewegungsvorstellung ist.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/166/1916-02-08/p040"}],"english":["GA 166/1916-02-08/p054","GA 166/1916-02-08/p055"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":260,"en_words":273,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9740,"original_word_count":9892,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Pauline Wehrle","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Necessity and Freedom","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA166/English/AP1988/19160208p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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