{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 169/1916-07-04/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"For example, in these last few weeks, I have been thinking about a man I spent much time with around the turn of the century, between 1898 and 1901 or so. Back then he was striving for a world view but unable to construct one. He was searching for it in Haeckelism, but apparently did not find that satisfactory. Then I completely lost touch with him. Now I see that this same man, thoroughly educated in the natural sciences, is indeed still striving for a world view, but he has the most peculiar ideas about the reasons why people arrive at world views. And incidentally, he also includes religion under the category “world view.” Someone who lives totally in the merely external, material understanding of facts, in the ahrimanic reality, cannot really feel justified integrating these facts into a world view. Now if he is nevertheless looking for a world view, how is he supposed to justify this search? We can see especially from this example how misguided people can be these days. Still, they are all honestly striving people.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Balance in Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-07-04","location":null,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/169/1916-07-04/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Sabine H. Seiler","identified_edition":"AP1990","book_title":"Toward Imagination","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA169/English/AP1990/19160704p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/169/1916-07-04/p035","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1916-07-04","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 169/1916-07-04/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/169/1916-07-04/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":325,"en_words":326,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 169/1916-07-04/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"So mußte ich in den letzten Wochen eines Mannes gedenken, mit dem ich um die Wende des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901 öfter zusammen war, der dazumal gestrebt hat nach einer Weltanschauung, aber nicht zu einer Weltanschauung kommen konnte. Er versuchte, sie im Haeckelismus zu finden, scheint aber dann doch nicht befriedigt worden zu sein. Ich habe ihn ganz aus dem Auge verloren. Und jetzt sehe ich, daß derselbe Mann, der gründlich naturwissenschaftlich gebildet ist, zwar nach Weltanschauung strebt, aber sich die merkwürdigsten Vorstellungen macht über die Gründe, warum der Mensch eigentlich zu einer Weltanschauung kommt, und unter Weltanschauung versteht er auch die Religion. Wenn jemand ganz eingelebt ist in das nur äußerliche, materielle Auffassen der Tatsachen, in die ahrimanische Wirklichkeit, so kann er ja vor sich selber nicht rechtfertigen, daß er die Tatsachen zu einer Weltanschauung zusammenfaßt. Wenn er aber nun doch eine Weltanschauung sucht, man möchte sagen, was soll er nun mit sich selber machen, um dieses Suchen nach einer Weltanschauung zu rechtfertigen? Nun sieht man gerade an diesem Beispiel, auf welche Abwege die Menschen in der Gegenwart kommen. Es sind ja alles redlich strebsame Menschen. Dieser Mann sagt sich nun: Nach dem, was die Naturwissenschaft gibt, was überhaupt eine Wissenschaft gibt, was so einfach die «Wahrheit» ist, auf dem Wege kann man ja nicht zu einer Weltanschauung kommen. Wie kommt man also zu einer Weltanschauung? Die Sinne geben die Weltanschauung nicht; der Verstand, der an die Sinne gebunden sein muß, gibt die Weltanschauung nicht; was gibt die Weltanschauung? - Und da kam denn der betreffende Mann darauf, so recht im Sinne unserer Zeit den Ursprung der Weltanschauung zu suchen, nämlich in der Psycho-Sexualität! Wodurch kommt der Mensch zu einer Weltanschauung? Dadurch, daß er ein sexuelles Wesen ist! Wäre der Mensch kein sexuelles Wesen, so würde er nicht die Ereignisse zusammenfassen, sondern er würde nur die Tatsachen auffassen. Einen charakteristischen Ausspruch dieses Mannes möchte ich Ihnen doch vorlesen. Er sagt:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":325,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/169/1916-07-04/p020"}],"english":["GA 169/1916-07-04/p035","GA 169/1916-07-04/p036","GA 169/1916-07-04/p037"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":325,"en_words":326,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5529,"original_word_count":5564,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Sabine H. Seiler","identified_edition":"AP1990","book_title":"Toward Imagination","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA169/English/AP1990/19160704p01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 169/1916-07-04/p020"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}