{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 174b/1918-02-24/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Yesterday I spoke about how our development appears to the Oriental. In many respects, the Oriental sees precisely what is compromising and inconsistent with his naive, intuitive spiritual faculty. And right now there are critical views among outstanding Orientals that are significant and interesting to follow. More and more views are emerging in the Asian East that the Orient must take the further development of humanity into its own hands. These views could be undone if there were more sense for what is proclaimed here as spiritual science! But then this sense must also be a living one; one must not only want to have something interesting in spiritual science, from which one prepares an inner soul voluptuousness, but one must want to have something that permeates one's whole life. And one must be able to see that it is only through the insights of spiritual science that social, moral and legal concepts can truly be grasped. What humanity has conceived under the influence of the scientific world view over the decades has not grown with the spirit that reigns in reality. No, it is at best comparable to those views that today educate people who want to spiritually kill the whole world because they only take their concepts from the world of the dead. Future times, when people will think more objectively about these things again, when the passions that so often guide and direct judgments today will have died down, future times – I am fully convinced that it can be so — will say: One of the most important characteristics of the period around 1917 was that the Weltanschauung, which is only intended for the head and actually drives people into old age, has become a school-like Weltanschauung. In the future, perhaps in a distant future, it will be called Wilsonism, in reference to the great schoolmaster from whom a large part of humanity wants to have a socio-political worldview impressed upon them. It is no mere accident that mere school-knowledge, which has nothing to do with the spiritual, has now become one of the most important political factors in the form of Wilsonism. This is an important and tremendously significant symptom of our time. It is just not possible to talk about these things today in a really thorough and comprehensive way that takes everything into account. But from my present allusions you will have gathered how important it actually is to try to understand these things thoroughly, how infinitely important it is to face up to these things not only out of affect, out of emotion, but out of knowledge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Thirteenth Lecture","site_heading":"Spiritual Warfare, Materialism, and Living Education","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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Aber dann muß dieser Sinn auch wirklich ein lebendiger sein; man muß nicht nur etwas Interessantes an der Geisteswissenschaft haben wollen, an dem man sich eine innere seelische Wollust bereitet, sondern man muß etwas haben wollen, was das ganze Leben durchdringt. Und die Anschauung muß man haben können, daß durch die Erkenntnisse der Geisteswissenschaft die sozialen, die sittlichen, die Rechtsbegriffe wirklich erst ins Auge gefaßt werden können. Dasjenige, was die Menschheit gedacht hat unter dem Einfluß der naturwissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung durch Jahrzehnte, das ist dem Geiste, der in der Wirklichkeit waltet, nicht gewachsen. Nein, das ist höchstens gewachsen jenen Anschauungen, die heute Menschen ausbilden, welche die ganze Welt geistig ertöten möchten, weil sie ihre Begriffe nur von der Welt des Toten hernehmen. Künftige Zeiten, in denen man wieder objektiver denken wird über diese Dinge, in denen die Leidenschaften verglommen sein werden, die heute so vielfach die Urteile lenken und leiten, künftige Zeiten - ich bin voll davon überzeugt, daß es so sein kann — werden sagen: Eines der wichtigsten Charakteristika des Zeitalters um 1917 herum war, daß die Weltanschauung, die nur für den Kopf gedacht ist und den Menschen eigentlich ins Greisenhafte treibt, eine schulmäßige Weltanschauung geworden ist. - Man wird sie künftig einmal — die Zukunft wird vielleicht noch ferne liegen —- Wilsonismus nennen, anknüpfend an den großen Schulmeister, von dem sich heute ein großer Teil der Menschheit eine sozialpolitische Weltanschauung einprägen lassen will. Nicht umsonst ist die bloße Schulweisheit, die sich vom Geistigen nichts träumen läßt, heute eine der wichtigsten politischen Potenzen in der Form des Wilsonismus. Das ist wichtig, es ist ein ungeheuer bedeutungsvolles Zeitsymptom. Es ist nur nicht möglich, heute schon über diese Dinge wirklich eingehend und umfassend und alles ergreifend zu sprechen. Aber aus meinen heutigen Andeutungen werden Sie entnommen haben, wie wichtig es eigentlich ist, zu versuchen, diese Dinge durchgreifend zu verstehen, wie unendlich wichtig es ist, nicht nur aus Affekten, aus Emotionen heraus, sondern aus der Erkenntnis heraus diese Dinge ins Auge zu fassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":426,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/174b/1918-02-24/p040"}],"english":["GA 174b/1918-02-24/p040"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":426,"en_words":435,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9321,"original_word_count":8906,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Spiritual Background of Human History","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA174b/English/SOL2024/19180224p01.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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