{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"At present there is no inclination to seek union through thinking with the spiritual world. That is something which is positively avoided whereas pride is taken in pursuing “genuine” science. The view is that now at last science has arrived after mankind has remained for so long in a stage of infancy. It must be said though that this science, particularly when it forms the basis for a view of life, has produced some strange results. For one thing it cannot come to grips with what thinking actually is. Natural science dissects man's body and comes to amazing conclusions about the structure of the brain and its function. Thinking itself is disregarded. As a result thinking as such has gradually become a ghostly something of which science is afraid. As a consequence modern science is particularly against thinkers whose lives were steeped in thinking, thinkers like *Hegel*, *Schelling*, *Jacob Boehme* and other mystics whose view of life was built on thoughts. The modern researcher takes the attitude that these people no doubt did think, but thoughts do not lead to certainty. A scientist feels eerie when he must leave the sense world, i.e., the realm which African Spir called a world of semblance and illusion. Yet the scientist cannot establish science if he refuses to think, so he is caught in a dilemma. This dilemma caused one of science's elite, who felt himself especially suited to represent scientific opinion, to utter an aphorism which, when the history of the second half of the 19th century comes to be rewritten, could well be inserted as characteristic of many aspects of this period. At a scientific congress this scientist declared: “We men of medicine have to admit that, like educated folk in general, exact science cannot do completely without thinking.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":298,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p024","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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Mit dem Denken als solchem konnte diese Wissenschaft wirklich nichts Richtiges anfangen, denn sie zergliedert den Menschen, kommt bis zu wunderbaren Anschauungen über den Bau des Gehirns und dergleichen, über die menschlichen Funktionen und so weiter, aber das Denken ist in alle dem nicht drinnen. Daher ist das Denken als solches für diese Wissenschaft nach und nach etwas geworden — oh, man könnte schon sagen: das sie schon selbst wie eine Art Gespenst, vor dem sie sich fürchtet, empfindet. Insbesondere verhaßt sind daher der neueren Wissenschaft solche Denker, die viel gedacht haben, die im Inhalte ihrer Weltanschauung Gedanken haben, wie Hegel, Schelling, Jakob Böhme und andere Mystiker. Ja, die Leute haben gedacht - so sagt sich der moderne Naturforscher -, aber da ist man im Unsicheren. Er fühlt sich so nicht geheuer, wenn er aus der Welt heraus soll, die African Spir eine Scheinwelt, eine Welt der Täuschung nennt. Beim Denken ist es ihm nicht geheuer. Aber nun kann er nicht Wissenschaft begründen, wenn er nicht doch denkt. Das ist eine Zwickmühle. Das hat dazu geführt, daß einer der Herren, der sich ganz besonders als Vertreter moderner Wissenschaftlichkeit fühlte, bei einer Naturforscherversammlung folgenden Ausspruch tat, einen Ausspruch, der geradezu über der zweiten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, wenn man dessen Geschichte schreibt, hingeschrieben werden sollte wie eine Art Devise, wie etwas, das viel charakterisiert. Da sagt der Betreffende: Wir Mediziner wollen zugestehen, daß auch die exakte strenge Wissenschaft, wie der gebildete Mensch überhaupt, das Denken nicht völlig entbehren kann. — So im neunzehnten Jahrhundert bei einer ernsten Naturforscherversammlung! Mit Bedauern wird der Satz hingestellt, daß man doch das Denken nicht ganz entbehren kann, nicht als Mediziner, überhaupt nicht als gebildeter Mensch. Also dieses Denken ist eigentlich etwas recht Fatales. Es versetzt einen sogleich, wenn man sich nur ihm nähert, in die Unsicherheit, aber man kann es nicht ganz entbehren!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":381,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p019"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p024","GA 176/1917-07-31/p025"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":381,"en_words":352,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.92,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6890,"original_word_count":7508,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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