{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 173c/1917-01-21/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is another phenomenon today of which it is most important to become aware. There exist today many concepts and ideas which have to be very definite if they are to be of any use. Modern, more mercantile, life demands clearly defined concepts based on calculations. Science has become accustomed to this, but so has art. Think of the development art has undergone in this connection! It is not so long ago that art was concerned with great ideals on a wide scale, when, thank goodness, concepts were insufficient for an easy interpretation of great works which were full of meaning. This is no longer the case to the same extent. Today, art strives for naturalism, and concepts can easily encompass works of art because now they have often arisen merely from concepts instead of from an elemental, all-embracing world of feeling. Mankind is today filled to the brim with commonplace, naturalistic concepts which are determined by the fact that they have been conceived entirely in relation to the physical plane where it is in the nature of things to be sharply defined and individualized.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXII","site_heading":"The Dead, Materialism, and Spiritual Concepts","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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Sehen Sie, in unserer Zeit leben viele Begriffe, viele Vorstellungen, die außerordentlich bestimmt sein müssen, sonst kommt man mit diesen Vorstellungen nicht weiter. Insbesondere in dem modernen, mehr merkantilistischen Leben müssen rechnerisch stark umrissene Begriffe ausgebildet werden. Daran hat sich die Wissenschaft gewöhnt, daran hat sich aber auch die Kunst gewöhnt. Denken Sie nur, welche Entwickelung in dieser Beziehung die Kunst durchgemacht hat! Wir haben noch nicht lange jene Kunstperiode hinter uns, wo die Kunst auf die großen idealen Zusammenhänge gegangen ist, und — ich möchte sagen, Gott sei Dank — Begriffe nicht ausreichten, um in leichter Weise ein Kunstwerk zu interpretieren, wo die Kunstwerke vielsagend waren. Das ist heute nicht mehr in demselben Maße der Fall. Heute strebt man nach Naturalismus, und die Begriffe können leicht nachkommen, weil die Kunstwerke selber oftmals aus Begriffen nur hervorgegangen sind, nicht aus der elementar umspannenden Empfindung. Die Menschheit ist heute eben angefüllt mit bestimmten trivialisierten, naturalistischen Begriffen, welche dadurch bestimmt sind, daß sie ganz am physischen Plane ausgebildet sind, wo die Dinge eben auch bestimmt sind, individualisiert sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/173c/1917-01-21/p032"}],"english":["GA 173c/1917-01-21/p037"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":193,"en_words":185,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6085,"original_word_count":6271,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1988","book_title":"The Karma of Untruthfulness II","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA173c/English/RSP1988/19170121p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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