{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 18/p01c07/p041","lang":"en","edition":"AP1973","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What man finally arrives at as he ponders over things is their essence. It is the foundation of things. What man receives as his highest insight is at the same time the deepest nature of things. The thought that *lives* in man is, therefore, also the objective content of the world. One can say that the thought is at first in the world in an unconscious form. It is then received by the human spirit. It becomes apparent to itself in the human spirit. Just as man, in directing his attention into nature, finally finds the thought that makes the phenomena comprehensible, so he also finds thought within himself, as he turns his attention inward. As the essence of nature is thought, so also man's own essence is thought. In the human self-consciousness, therefore, thought contemplates itself. The essence of the world arrives at its own awareness. In the other creatures of nature thought is active, but this activity is not directed toward itself but toward something other than itself. Nature, then, does contain thought, but in thinking, man's thought is not merely contained; it is here not merely active, but is directed toward itself. In external nature, thought, to be sure, also unfolds life, but there it only flows into something else; in man, it lives in itself. In this manner the whole process of the world appears to Hegel as thought process, and all occurrences in this process are represented as preparatory phases for the highest event that there is: The thoughtful comprehension of thought itself. This event takes place in the human self-consciousness. Thought then works its way progressively through until it reaches its highest form of manifestation in which it comprehends itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Classics of World and Life Conception","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/18/p01c07/p041","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1973"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1973","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/18/p01c07/p041","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l07","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 18/l07/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/18/l07/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 18/l07/p018"],"length_check":{"de_words":281,"en_words":286,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Wie das Wesen der Natur die Gedanken sind, so ist auch des Menschen eigenes Wesen Gedanke. Im menschlichen Selbstbewußtsein schaut sich also der Gedanke selbst an. Die Wesenheit der Welt kommt zu sich selbst. In den anderen Naturgeschöpfen arbeitet der Gedanke; seine Wirksamkeit ist nicht auf sich selbst, sondern auf anderes gerichtet. Die Natur enthält daher den Gedanken; aber im denkenden Menschen ist der Gedanke nicht nur enthalten, er wirkt nicht nur, sondern er ist auf sich selbst gerichtet. In der äußeren Natur lebt sich der Gedanke zwar auch aus, aber er fließt da in ein anderes aus; im Menschen lebt er in sich selbst. So erscheint für Hegel der ganze Weltprozeß als ein Gedankenprozeß. Und alle Vorgänge dieses Prozesses stellen sich dar als Vorstufen zu dem höchsten Ereignisse, das es gibt: zu dem denkenden Erfassen des Gedankens selbst. Dieses Ereignis spielt sich im menschlichen Selbstbewußtsein ab. Der Gedanke arbeitet sich also fortschreitend hindurch bis zu seiner höchsten Erscheinungsform, in der er sich selbst begreift.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":281,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/18/l07/p018"}],"english":["GA 18/p01c07/p041"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":281,"en_words":286,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 18/l07/p018"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":null,"band":"no_original","note":null,"word_count":12877,"original_word_count":null,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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