{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 177/1917-10-13/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The book is a good example of the inappropriate ideas people have in the present time. An attempt is made to see the State as an organism. This is the kind of thing people do when they use the ideas current in our time to grasp anything that needs to be grasped in mind and spirit. It is good to be able to say this is an erudite, scholarly and truly profound individual, someone we really cannot praise enough, but at the same time we are going to show the true nature of the completely inappropriate idea on which the book is based. This is the kind of contradiction in which we find ourselves all the time. Life is full of contradictions. Abstract and incontrovertible ideas will not do if we want to take hold of life. We should not immediately think that someone whom we have to fight is an idiot; it is also possible to see someone whom we have to fight as a most erudite and thoroughgoing scholar, as indeed is the case with the author about whose work I am speaking.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Abstraction and Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-10-13","location":null,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/177/1917-10-13/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Anna R. 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Es ist in diesem Buch der Versuch gemacht, den Staat als einen Organismus aufzufassen. Das ist eine jener Bestrebungen, die die Menschen der Gegenwart haben, wenn sie irgend etwas, was eigentlich geistig begriffen werden soll, mit den Vorstellungen der Gegenwart umfassen wollen. Und es ist gut, daß man Bezug nehmen kann auf einen geistreichen, sehr gelehrten, tiefgründigen Menschen, den man eigentlich nicht genug loben kann, wenn man den ganz verfehlten Gedanken, der seinem Buche zugrunde liegt, ins rechte Licht stellen will. Ja, in solche Widersprüche kommt man ja fortwährend. Aber das Leben ist eben voller Widersprüche. 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