{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 171/1916-09-24/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thought about happiness and prosperity is, of course, quite justified. But under the influence of Ahriman it has assumed a certain character as a result of a really devilish tenet. This tenet defines the good in such a way that the good is a said to manifest actually through happiness or prosperity, through the happiness indeed of the greatest number, and connected therewith is the misery of the minority, just as if one were to describe an organism by suggesting that it develops only to the knees and dies off from there down. In such identification of happiness with the good, with virtue, there is an ahrimanic impulse. The Greeks, as represented by their greatest individuals, were impervious to such identification of the concept of prosperity with that of the good. But ahrimanic influences produced a mentality in humanity in the fifth post-Atlantean epoch that seeks for the good *in* prosperity, *in* happiness. It is from this point of view that you must study the philosophy of Saint-Simon, and all the different efforts to discover principles of national economy, especially in Western Europe; only so will you be able to understand them. Even the thought of Rousseau is not free from this impulse. Such matters must be studied concretely and objectively.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. Atlantean Impulses in the Mexican Mysteries. The Problem of Natural Urges and Impulses, The Problem of Death","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-09-24","location":null,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/171/1916-09-24/p032","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Gilbert Church, Frédéric Kozlik and Stewart C. Easton","identified_edition":"AP1984","book_title":"Inner Impulses of Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA171/English/AP1984/19160924p01.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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Das ist unter diesen Einflüssen, die ich geschildert habe. Da sehen wir zum Beispiel, wie nachgeforscht wird, was man tun kann, damit die Menschen auf der Erde ein möglichst glückliches Leben führen. Herstellung des Erdenglückes, das wird ein Ideal. Ich sage nicht: bloß unter ahrimanischen Kräften; es sind darinnen auch regulär fortschreitende Kräfte. Also es soll natürlich über das Glück nachgedacht werden. Aber eine bestimmte Färbung bekam es unter Ahrimans Einwirkung durch einen rein teuflischen Satz: «Das Gute ist das Glück der größtmöglichen Menschenanzahl auf der Erde.» Dieser Satz ist ein rein teuflischer Satz, denn er definiert das Gute so, daß er es durch das Glück ausdrückt, und noch dazu das Glück der größtmöglichen Anzahl, womit verknüpft sein würde das Elend der Minderzahl; so ungefähr, wie wenn man einen Organismus schildern wollte dadurch, daß man ihn bis zu den Knien nur ausbildet und dann von den Knien nach abwärts verkümmern läßt. Es ist aber überhaupt das Zusammenstellen von Glück und Güte, von Glück und Tugend etwas, was einen ahrimanischen Charakter hat. Glück und Tugend, Glück und das Gute: die Griechen waren in ihren besten Persönlichkeiten ganz unzugänglich für die Zusammenstellung der Begriffe Glück und das Gute. Aber gerade durch ahrimanische Einflüsse sollte in der fünften nachatlantischen Menschheit eine Gesinnung erzeugt werden, welche das Gute im Glücke sucht. Sie müssen alles, was Sie kennen als Saint-Simonismus, die verschiedenen Bestrebungen, nationalökonomische Ordnungen zu finden, namentlich im Westen Europas, unter diesem Gesichtspunkte betrachten, dann können Sie sie nur verstehen; selbst der Rousseauismus ist nicht frei von diesem Impulse. 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