{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p044","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today man approaches nature in the light of the education he has received. Nature proceeds in obedience to natural laws. We think of the birth, maturity and death of the Earth in terms of natural laws. Everything is seen from the standpoint of natural laws. In addition to the laws of nature there is the moral law. We feel—and especially the Kantians, for example—that we are subject to the categorical imperative, that we are an integral part of the moral world order. But think how anaemic has become the idea today that this moral world order has, like nature, its own objective reality. After all, even Haeckel, even Arrhenius and others, for all their materialism, were convinced that the Earth was moving towards a new glacial epoch or towards entropy. But they also believed that the little “idols” they called atoms are dissociated and cannot be destroyed—hence the conservation of matter! This accords more or less with the modern scientific outlook. But these ideas about matter ignore the following problem: if, one fine day, the Earth becomes glaciated or reaches total entropy, what becomes of the moral world order? It has no place in Earth conditions of this nature! Once the human species has died out, what becomes of the moral order? In other words, the moral ideas which man feels to be an integral part of himself, the source of his moral values and the goal of his conscience, appear to be a necessity; but if we are really honest, moral ideas are unrelated to the natural order, to that which natural science regards as fundamental realities. Moral ideas have become emasculated. They are powerful enough to determine men's actions and the dictates of conscience; they are not strong enough, however, to give the impression that what one imagines to be a moral idea today is a concrete, vital force in the world. Something more is needed to realize this. Who is it that can awaken our moral conceptions to vigorous and active life? It is the Christ! This is one aspect of the Christ Being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Mission and the Transformation of Faith","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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Sie verläuft nach ihren natürlichen Gesetzen. Man denkt nach diesen natürlichen Gesetzen über Erdenanfang, Erdenmitte, Erdenende. Man betrachtet alles nach diesen natürlichen Gesetzen. Daneben hat man die moralische Weltordnung. Gewiß, man fühlt sich - gerade Kantianer tun das zum Beispiel - dem kategorischen Imperativ unterworfen: man fühlt sich verbunden der moralischen Weltordnung. Aber denken Sie, wie schwach schon in unserer Zeit geworden ist der Gedanke, die Vorstellung, daß diese moralische Weltordnung eine objektive Realität für sich hat, wie die Natur. Nicht wahr, selbst der Haeckel, selbst der Arrhenius und so weiter, wenn sie noch so sehr Materialisten sind, sie denken: Gewiß, die Erde, sie geht einem Vereisungsprozeß oder einem ähnlichen Prozeß oder einer Entropie entgegen, oder wie man es heißen will. Aber sie denken: die kleinen Götzen, die sie Atome nennen, die werden auseinandertreiben, doch die erhalten sich wenigstens. Also auch die Erhaltung der Materie, des Stoffes! Da ist es ja so ziemlich in Ordnung bei der gegenwärtigen Weltanschauung. Aber es lassen diese Vorstellungen über den Stoff die Erwägung nicht zu: Wenn die Erde einmal vereist ist oder bei der Entropie angelangt sein wird, was wird dann mit der moralischen Weltordnung? Im ganzen so gedachten Erdensein hat sie keinen Platz! Wenn das physische Menschengeschlecht einmal verschwunden ist, wo ist dann die ganze moralische Weltordnung? Das heißt: Die moralischen Vorstellungen, an die man sich gebunden fühlt, zu denen das Gewissen sich hindrängt, den Menschen hindrängt, diese moralischen Vorstellungen erscheinen gewiß notwendig; aber mit der Naturordnung, mit dem, was real notwendig, von der Naturanschauung notwendig genannt wird, hat es keinen Zusammenhang, wenn man ganz ehrlich ist! Sie sind schwach geworden, die Vorstellungen. Sie sind so stark, daß man seine Taten danach einrichtet; so stark sind sie, daß man sich an diese Vorstellungen durch sein Gewissen gebunden fühlt; aber sie sind nicht so stark, daß man denken könnte: Was du heute dir ausdenkst über irgendeine Moralidee, das ist ein real Wirksames! Dazu braucht es etwas, damit das real wirksam sein kann. Wo ist das, was dasjenige, was in unserer moralischen Idee lebt, real wirksam macht? Das ist der Christus — das ist der Christus! Das ist eine Seite des Christus-Wesens!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":368,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/175/1917-04-10/p046"}],"english":["GA 175/1917-04-10/p044"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":368,"en_words":347,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8744,"original_word_count":8870,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"A. H. 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