{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-18/p012","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here you get from the right side what I might call the side view of the normal aura of man. I say expressly a normal aura seen from the right side. What is presented to the view in this figure shows how man is placed into his environment of soul-and-spirit. But t also describes where man, the soul-and-spirit in man, stands in relation to itself. When everything represented by this figure is studied, it can clearly be seen how man is a being bounded an two sides. These two sides where man has his limits are always observed in life; but they are not indicated correctly nor considered in the right way—at least they are not understood. You know how in external science it is said that when man observes the world, when with his science he wishes to gain knowledge of the world, he comes to definite limits. We have often spoken of these limits, of the famous *ignorabimus* (“we shall never know”) which holds good with scientists and many philosophers. It is said that man comes indeed to certain limits in his cognition, in his conception, of the external world. I have certainly already quoted to you du Bois-Reymond's famous statement that in his seventieth year he made to the Scientific Congress in Leipzig; Human cognition will never penetrate into the regions haunted by matter—this is roughly what he said at the time. Perhaps the more correct way of speaking about the limits to human knowledge would be the following. In observing the world it is necessary for man to hold fast certain concepts which he penetrates neither with his scientific cognition nor with his ordinary philosophical cognition, we need only consider such concepts as that of the atom. The atom, however naturally has meaning only when we cannot actually speak of it, when we cannot say what it is. For the moment we were to begin describing the atom, it would no—longer be an atom. It is simply something unapproachable. And it is thus already matter, actual substance. Certain concepts have to be maintained that can never be approached. It is the same with knowledge of the external world; inaccessible concepts like matter, force and so on, must be maintained. That they should have to be maintained, depends here simply upon the inner light of man's soul-and-spirit stretching out into the darkness. What is stated to be the limit of knowledge can, I might say, actually be seen clearly in the aura.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"The Soul's Dual Boundaries: Memory and Love","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Ich sage ausdrücklich: eine Normalaura von der rechten Seite aus gesehen. Dasjenige, was sich dem Schauen so darstellen würde, daß das Schauen eben diese Figur vor sich hätte, das charakterisiert das Hineingestelltsein des Menschen in seine geistig-seelische Umgebung. Es charakterisiert aber auch die Stellung des Menschen, des Seelisch-Geistigen des Menschen zu sich selber. Man kann, gerade wenn man dasjenige studiert, was durch diese Figur dargestellt ist, so recht sehen, wie der Mensch nach zwei Seiten hin ein begrenztes Wesen ist. Diese zwei Seiten, nach denen hin der Mensch ein begrenztes Wesen ist, die werden im Leben immer bemerkt; allein sie werden nicht richtig gedeutet, sie werden nicht richtig ins Auge gefaßt, werden wenigstens nicht verstanden. Sie wissen ja, daß man in der äußeren Naturwissenschaft davon spricht, daß der Mensch, wenn er die Welt betrachtet, wenn er sich Erkenntnisse verschaffen will von der Welt, mit seiner Wissenschaft, mit seiner Erkenntnis an bestimmte Grenzen kommt. Wir haben öfter von diesen Grenzen gesprochen, von diesem berühmten «Ignorabimus» — wir werden niemals wissen -, welches von seiten der Naturforscher, von seiten mancher Philosophen geltend gemacht wird. Man sagt, der Mensch komme eben zu bestimmten Grenzen seines Erkennens, seines Anschauens der Außenwelt. Ich habe Ihnen wohl auch schon den berühmten Ausspruch angeführt, den Du Bois-Reymond auf der Leipziger Naturforscherversammlung in den siebziger Jahren getan hat: In die Regionen hinein, so sagte ungefähr dazumal Du Bois-Reymond, in denen Materie spukt, wird das menschliche Erkennen niemals dringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-08-18/p010"},{"locus":"GA 183/1918-08-18/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Man würde richtiger über diese Erkenntnisgrenzen des Menschen sprechen, wenn man vielleicht sagen würde: Der Mensch ist genötigt, indem er die Welt betrachtet, gewisse Begriffe sich festzusetzen, welche er mit seinem naturwissenschaftlichen Erkennen, auch mit seinem gewöhnlichen Philosophenerkennen nicht durchdringt. Sie brauchen ja nur zu denken an solche Betrachtungen wie den Begriff des Atoms. Vom Atom redet die Naturwissenschaft. Aber das Atom hat natürlich nur dann einen Sinn, wenn man eigentlich nicht davon reden kann, wenn man nicht sagen kann, was ein Atom ist; denn in dem Augenblicke, wo man anfangen würde, das Atom zu beschreiben, wäre es nicht mehr ein Atom. Es ist ein schlechthin Unnahbares. Und so ist es eigentlich schon die Materie, der Stoff selber. Es müssen gewisse Begriffe festgesetzt werden, an die man nicht herankommt. So ist es mit dem Erkennen der Außenwelt. Es müssen Begriffe festgesetzt werden, wie Materie, Kraft und so weiter, an die man nicht herankommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":153,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/183/1918-08-18/p011"}],"english":["GA 183/1918-08-18/p012"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":468,"en_words":415,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4108,"original_word_count":4016,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LRZ253","book_title":"Occult Psychology","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA183/English/LRZ253/19180818p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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