{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-31/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we see that, apart from all the many other ills that beset mankind, nothing less than a war against the spirit is waged in our time. It is a war which, under the influence of certain circles, will become more and more widespread; and is being promoted in the strongest possible way by what may be termed the spirit of our time.—I have to admit that it is extremely difficult to speak about things belonging to this domain, at the same time it is not enough merely to hint at them or avoid calling them by their proper names. In this world nothing can be said to be absolute good or absolute evil; it always depends on the aspect from which it is viewed. The important thing is to recognize that in their right place at the right time things are good; shifted out of the right place and time they are no longer good. Nowadays people all too readily take things in a dogmatic or absolute sense, which so easily leads to misunderstanding about such matters. There is no question of levelling criticism at the age as such, only of drawing attention to facts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Forgotten Aspects of Cultural Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-07-31","location":null,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/176/1917-07-31/p033","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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Nichts Geringeres lebt in unserer Zeit, und wird immer mehr leben wollen, von gewissen Kreisen ausgehend, als der Kampf gegen den Geist selbst. Dieser Kampf gegen den Geist, der wird in unserer Zeit im eminentesten Sinne gefördert durch dasjenige, was man den Zeitgeist nennen könnte. Ich muß sagen, es ist recht schwierig, über solche Dinge zu reden, wie diejenigen sind, auf die wir da kommen; aber auf der anderen Seite ist es auch nicht genügend, auf die Dinge bloß hinzudeuten und sie nicht bei ihrem wahren Namen zu nennen. Denn in der Welt kann man eigentlich nicht sagen: Irgend etwas ist absolut gut oder absolut schlecht oder böse, sondern es kommt überall auf den Gesichtspunkt an. Überall kommt es darauf an, die Dinge so zu erkennen, daß man sich sagen kann: An ihrem richtigen Ort und in ihrem richtigen Zusammenhang sind sie gut. Werden sie aus dem richtigen Zusammenhang herausgeschoben, dann sind sie eben nicht mehr gut. Und weil man heute die Dinge so sehr leicht verdogmatisiert und verabsolutiert, so wird man bei einer solchen Auseinandersetzung, wie ich sie jetzt meine, sehr leicht mißverstanden; man wird sehr leicht so verstanden, als ob man eine Art Kritiker der Zeit sein wollte, ein Mensch, der die Zeit selbst kritisiert. Das will ich ganz und gar nicht sein, sondern ich will nur auf die Tatsachen hinweisen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-31/p026"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-31/p033"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":239,"en_words":196,"ratio":0.82,"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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