{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-09-13/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus man himself stands in an ambivalent way within the world order. And one is pointed to man in his ambivalence if one wants to understand the whole context, if one wants to find a transition from cosmic hatred to the individual-soul hatred that occurs in human nature. You know that when we look at the human being as he stands before us today, we can say that his nature is made up of perception, feeling and will. He divides himself into a perceiving, a feeling and a willing being, which form a unity. But all the beautiful things that philosophy says about it come to nothing if we cannot also clearly and precisely distinguish the other side. Now even the somewhat conceptually-minded psychologists of the present day are realizing that we actually know nothing right about will. I have already explained the nature of will to you; today it is enough to point out that even contemporary psychology has to admit that we know nothing right about will. In fact, will is also overslept in the waking life of a person, in its entity, in its essence. One could also say that the human being does not reach down with his soul to the will. He believes – I have discussed this in the context of Augustine on the basis of a concrete fact – he believes that he stands inside the essence itself by imagining; but he cannot say this with regard to the will. For, however any intended purpose is connected with the complicated mechanism of the hand or the movement of the legs, man knows as little about it in waking life as he knows about his body when he sleeps or about his surroundings when he sleeps. The present man actually oversleeps the will. If one now advances through the method of spiritual science from mere imagining to willing, one learns from the facts, albeit from spiritual facts, to understand how it comes that man today oversleeps his will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Fourth Lecture","site_heading":"Bridging Materialism and Spirituality Through Spiritual Science","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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Aber all das Schöne, das die Philosophie darüber sagt, das kommt ja doch auf keinen grünen Zweig, wenn man nicht auf der andern Seite auch wiederum die Dinge klar und genau unterscheiden kann. Nun werden selbst die etwas begriffsspitzigen Psychologen der Gegenwart darauf aufmerksam, daß man vom Wollen eigentlich nichts Rechtes weiß. Ich habe Ihnen ja das Wesen des Wollens auseinandergelegt; heute genügt es, darauf hinzudeuten, daß auch die Psychologie der Gegenwart sich sagen muß, vom Wollen weiß man nichts Rechtes. Das Wollen wird ja eigentlich auch im wachen Menschenleben seiner Entität, seiner Wesenheit nach verschlafen. Man könnte auch sagen, der Mensch reicht nicht hinunter mit seiner Seele zum Wollen. Er glaubt - ich habe das bei der Besprechung des Augustinus auseinandergesetzt an einer konkreten Tatsache -, er glaubt, dieser Mensch, drinnenzustehen in der Wesenheit selbst, indem er vorstellt; das kann er aber nicht bezüglich des Wollens sagen. Denn wie sich irgendeine gewollte Absicht verknüpft auch nur mit dem komplizierten Mechanismusorgan der Handbewegung oder des Gehens der Beine, davon weiß der Mensch ebensowenig im wachen Leben, wie er weiß von seinem Leibe, wenn er schläft, oder von seiner Umgebung, wenn er schläft. Das Wollen wird eigentlich verschlafen vom gegenwärtigen Menschen. Dringt man nun vor durch die Methode der Geisteswissenschaft vom bloßen Vorstellen zum Wollen, so lernt man aus den Tatsachen heraus, allerdings aus den geistigen Tatsachen heraus, begreifen, wie es kommt, daß der Mensch sein Wollen heute verschläft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":330,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-09-13/p022"}],"english":["GA 184/1918-09-13/p022"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":330,"en_words":334,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7899,"original_word_count":7625,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Polarity of Duration and Development","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA184/English/SOL2024/19180913p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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