{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 179/1917-12-15/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see at this point arises the illusion concerning the freedom of man. Man is a free being; he is, indeed. But only the real, true man is a free being. That fourth part, of which I have just spoken, is a free being. Other beings play into the remaining three fourths; these cannot be free. This gives rise to the delusion in regard to freedom so that we continually ask:—Is man free or is he not free? Man is free when he connects this idea of freedom with the one fourth of his being, in the sense in which I have just explained it. If the human being wishes to have this freedom as an impulse of his own, then he must develop this fourth part in a corresponding, independent way. In usual life, this fourth part cannot assert itself, for the simple reason that it is overpowered by the other three fourths. In the remaining three fourths is active all that man calls his desires, his appetites, his emotions and passions. These slay his freedom, for what is contained in the universe in the form of impulses works through these desires, emotions and passions.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Members of Man's Being and the Periods of His Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-12-15","location":null,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/179/1917-12-15/p017","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1934","book_title":"Historical Necessity and Freewill","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/19171215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Der Mensch ist ein freies Wesen; das ist er schon. Aber nur der wahre Mensch ist ein freies Wesen — jenes Viertel, von dem ich eben gesprochen habe, das ist ein freies Wesen. Die andern drei Viertel, in die spielen andere Wesenheiten herein; die können nicht frei sein. Und dadurch entsteht die Täuschung in bezug auf die Freiheit, daß man immer frägt: Ist der Mensch frei oder ist er nicht frei? Frei ist der Mensch, wenn er diesen Begriff der Freiheit bezieht auf das eine Viertel seines Wesens in dem Sinne, wie ich das jetzt auseinandergeserzt habe. Will der Mensch diese Freiheit als einen eigenen Impuls haben, dann muß er allerdings dieses Viertel in entsprechend selbständiger Weise entwickeln. Im gewöhnlichen Leben kann dieses Viertel nicht zu seinem Rechte kommen, aus dem einfachen Grunde, weil es von den übrigen drei Vierteln überwältigt wird. In den übrigen drei Vierteln wirkt alles dasjenige, was der Mensch in sich trägt als seine Triebe, seine Begierden, seine Affekte, seine Leidenschaften. Die ertöten seine Freiheit, denn durch die Triebe, durch die Affekte, durch die Leidenschaften wirkt dasjenige hindurch, was an Impulsen in der Allgemeinheit ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/179/1917-12-15/p015"}],"english":["GA 179/1917-12-15/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":204,"en_words":196,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4892,"original_word_count":4728,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1934","book_title":"Historical Necessity and Freewill","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/19171215p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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