{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-03-27/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This decree had unforeseen consequences. Contemporary philosophers begin their investigations by studying body and soul as if they were independent entities. If you were to ask, for example, a man like Wundt, on what grounds he accepted only the dichotomy of man, he would reply in good faith that it was on factual grounds since, from the evidence of direct observation, there was no sense in speaking of body, soul and spirit, but only of the body which looks outward and of the soul which looks inward. This is self-evident, he would reply. He had no idea that this was the consequence of the decree of the eighth Ecumenical Council. Even today philosophers do not mention the spirit. They follow the dogma laid down by the eighth Ecumenical Council. Precisely why they deny the spirit, though not openly, they do not know, any more than the Roman Cardinals knew what they were swearing to when they took an oath to preserve intact the fund which no longer existed. The real creative forces of history are all too seldom taken into consideration. Today anyone who rejects the conclusion of “unprejudiced science”, as it is called, which maintains that man consists of body and soul alone, is decried as an ignoramus, simply because the scientists themselves are unaware that their assumptions are based on the decrees of the Council of 869. And so it is with many other things. This Council is important because it sheds considerable light upon the evolution of Western thought.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Reality-Based Thinking and the Spirit's Suppression","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. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1917-03-27","location":null,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-03-27/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"A. H. Parker","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA175/English/RSP1972/19170327p01.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":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-03-27/p018"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/175/1917-03-27/p018","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":"1917-03-27","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 175/1917-03-27/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-03-27/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":299,"en_words":252,"ratio":0.84,"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 175/1917-03-27/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Mit diesem ist vieles verknüpft, was die Leute nicht wissen. Unsere heutigen Philosophen stellen noch immer ihre Betrachtungen so an, daß sie untersuchen auf der einen Seite das Leibliche, auf der anderen Seite das Seelische. Wenn Sie diese Leute, zum Beispiel Wundt oder ähnliche Köpfe, fragen würden, worauf das beruht, so würden sie selbstverständlich glauben, daß das auf Wirklichkeiten beruht, auf einer wirklichen Beobachtung, die darauf hinausgeht, daß es keinen Sinn habe zu sprechen von Leib, Seele und Geist, sondern bloß vom Leib, der nach außen gerichtet ist, und von der Seele, die nach innen gerichtet ist. Was würde so ein Wundt anderes sagen als: Das ergibt ja selbstverständlich die Anschauung! - Er hat keine Ahnung davon, daß das alles die Folge ist von dem, was das achte ökumenische Konzil festgelegt hat. Die Philosophen der Gegenwart sprechen noch immer nicht vom Geiste, denn sie folgen dem Dogma des achten ökumenischen Konzils. Warum eigentlich, wenn auch nicht mit deutlichen Worten, die modernen Philosophen den Geist abschwören, das wissen sie wahrhaftig ebensowenig, wie die römischen Kardinäle gewußt haben, auf was sie eigentlich schwören, als sie geschworen haben zu bewahren den Schatz, der längst nicht mehr da war. Die fortzeugenden Dinge in der Geschichte, die wirklichen Kräfte, die berücksichtigt man oftmals eben so furchtbar wenig. Und so kann man heute als unwissend gelten, wenn man nicht zustimmt der «voraussetzungslosen» Wissenschaft - wie man es nennt -, daß der Mensch nur aus Leib und Seele bestünde, bloß weil diejen:gen, die die voraussetzungslose Wissenschaft vertreten, nicht wissen, daß die Voraussetzung dazu die Festsetzungen des achten ökumenischen Konzils im Jahre 869 sind. Und so ist es mit sehr, sehr vielen Dingen. Man möchte sagen: Dieses achte Konzil ist zu gleicher Zeit ein wichtiges Fenster, durch das man hineinschauen kann in ein gutes Stück abendländischer Entwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":299,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-03-27/p019"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-03-27/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":299,"en_words":252,"ratio":0.84,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6812,"original_word_count":7035,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. Parker","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Building Stones for an Understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA175/English/RSP1972/19170327p01.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 175/1917-03-27/p019"],"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."}}