{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 184/1918-09-13/p040","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Life does not take place in a primeval soup, but rather proceeds in a differentiated and individualized way. That which must strive for a future must be striven for in a differentiated way from the outset. Today, there is still a widespread bad habit of, if I may put it in trivial terms, lumping everything together. Today, if someone has a political theory, he also forms everything else according to this political theory, world views and so on. If someone today has philosophical views, he also uses them as politics and so on, slapping everything over the same stick, and indeed over the one that the person in question uses as his favorite stick. That is the way it is in our time. Life is differentiated. Only the person who knows how life is differentiated is free of illusions. The future does not strive for a primeval soup of life, but for a strong structure: for the spiritual life as science, a certain inner life, of which one still has little conception today, and which, according to the customs of ancient times, one can call a religious life, and for the political life. If you mix things up, if you try to regulate one thing after another, then you fall into the same mistakes as those I characterized here last year, or even two years ago. For things proceed in separate currents: on the one hand, social life according to socialism, on the other hand, religious life according to freedom of thought, and scientific life according to pneumatology, according to knowledge of the spirit. Only in the living interaction of the three will the future have a certain healing power for human development, not a paradise on earth, that does not exist, but a certain healing power. But it would be a bad idea to present the outer life pneumatologically, for example, to found religious sects, to imbue them with pneumatological life, and thus to pursue politics from the point of view of pneumatology. That would achieve nothing. Likewise, it would achieve nothing if politics were pursued in the old sense in religious communities. Just as little as the hands can do what the head of man can do, so little the legs can do that, so little can pneumatology achieve what socialism should achieve, or religion achieve what socialism should achieve, or what pneumatology should achieve. What matters is the differentiation of certain things, but not just theoretically, but the differentiation of certain things in life. And that is what I want to conclude with today and continue with tomorrow. As I said, they are only intended to be aphorisms, to teach us something new about the fundamental questions that concern us now.","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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Das ist so in unserer heutigen Zeit. Das Leben verläuft differenziert. Illusionsfrei ist nur derjenige Mensch, der weiß, wie das Leben differenziert verläuft. Die Zukunft strebt nicht nach einem Urbrei des Lebens, sondern nach einer starken Gliederung: nach dem geistigen Leben als Wissenschaft, einem gewissen inneren Leben, von dem man sich heute noch wenig eine Vorstellung macht, und das man nach den Gepflogenheiten der alten Zeiten ein religiöses Leben nennen kann, und nach dem politischen Leben. Wirft man die Dinge durcheinander, will man das eine nach dem andern regeln, dann verfällt man in solche Fehler, wie die sind, die ich Ihnen im vorigen Jahre, oder gar vor zwei Jahren, hier einmal charakterisiert habe. Denn die Dinge gehen in getrennten Strömungen: Auf der einen Seite das soziale Leben nach dem Sozialismus, auf der andern Seite das religiöse Leben nach der Gedankenfreiheit, und das wissenschaftliche Leben nach der Pneumatologie, nach der Geist-Erkenntnis. Nur in dem lebendigen Zusammenwirken der drei wird die Zukunft eine gewisse Heilkraft für die menschliche Entwickelung haben, nicht ein Paradies auf Erden, das gibt es nicht, aber eine gewisse Heilkraft. Aber gar nicht gut wäre, wenn man etwa das äußere Leben pneumatologisch vorstellte, religiöse Sekten gründen will, diese mit pneumatologischem Leben durchziehen wollte, also Politik treiben würde vom Standpunkte der Pneumatologie. Das würde nichts sein. Ebenso würde es nichts sein, wenn man im alten Sinne in Religionsgemeinschaften Politik treiben würde. So wenig die Hände das verrichten können, was das Haupt des Menschen verrichten kann, so wenig die Beine das verrichten können, so wenig kann Pneumatologie dasjenige leisten, was Sozialismus leisten soll, oder Religion dasjenige leisten, was der Sozialismus leisten soll, oder was Pneumatologie leisten soll. Auf Differenzierung gewisser Dinge, aber jetzt nicht theoretisch bloß, sondern auf Differenzierung im Leben von gewissen Dingen kommt es an. Und das ist dasjenige, womit ich diese Betrachtungen heute schließen und morgen fortsetzen will. Sie sollen ja, wie gesagt, nur aphoristisch sein, sollen einiges Neue beibringen zu den Grundfragen, die uns jetzt beschäftigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":429,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/184/1918-09-13/p040"}],"english":["GA 184/1918-09-13/p040"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":429,"en_words":454,"ratio":1.06,"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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