{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"African Spir was an original thinker and he gained nothing of significance from his contact with Masonic circles. When we study him, which to begin with can be done through his writings, we find that he was very little influenced by the 19th Century cultural life around him On the contrary there comes to expression in his view of life an inner quality peculiar to himself. The most significant of his writings: “Thinking and Reality” was published in 1873. African Spir came to recognize, intuitively as it were, what thinking actually is. Not an all-embracing recognition perhaps but significant all the same. What interested him was the true nature of thinking. He wanted to discover what actually happens in man while he is thinking. He also wanted to find out how man is related, while he is engaged in thinking, on the one hand to external reality and on the other to his own inner experience.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":156,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p005","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Karma of Materialism","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1985/19170731p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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Nicht viele Menschen kennen den interessanten Denker African Spir, der in der Mitte der sechziger Jahre in Leipzig begonnen hat, daran zu denken, eine Art Weltanschauung seinen Mitmenschen zu geben, der damals mit freimaurerischen Kreisen in Berührung gekommen ist, ohne daß diese Berührung ihm, außer Äußerlichkeiten, etwas Besonderes gegeben hätte. Denn African Spir ist ein eigentümlicher Denker, und wenn wir ihn nur ein wenig betrachten werden, zunächst so, wie man ihn betrachten kann, wenn man sich etwas in seine Schriften hineinliest, von denen die bedeutendste 1873 erschienen ist und den Titel trägt: «Denken und Wirklichkeit», so könnte man ihn als einen Denker betrachten, der nicht viel von äußeren Anregungen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts ausgegangen ist, sondern der eine eigentümliche innere Wesenheit in seinem Denken, seiner Weltanschauung zum Ausdruck bringt. Man muß ihn zunächst eben so betrachten, wie er sich ergibt, wenn man seine Schriften liest. 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