{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-13/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I should have to go on for a long time if I were to describe all the ideas that emerged as time went on. In many different regions of the Earth, i.e., of the civilized world, conceptions of political economy arose. Fundamentally speaking, it was the aim of all of them—those that I have characterized and many others—not only to study the nature of the social structure that has evolved in the world hitherto, but also to consider what is the best thing to do to the social structure in order that men may not have to live in poverty in order that they may have prosperity, and so forth. Economic science, in many of its representatives, did after all set out with the strong desire to better the economic life of the people. Utopian characters and such characters as the French Socialists Saint Simon for instance, Auguste Comte, Louis Blanc and others had this in view. Their thought was somewhat as follows: Hitherto, Society being left more or less to itself has evolved in such a way as to produce great differences between the poor and the rich, the well-to-do and the unhappy. This state of affairs must now be changed. To this end they studied the laws of economics and propounded the many varied ideas with a view to bringing about some kind of improvement. Naturally, in so doing, many of them set out entirely the idea that it should be possible to establish some kind of Paradise on Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. The Transforming of Instinctive into Conscious Impulses","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-13","location":null,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-13/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"C52","book_title":"The Fundamental Social Demand of Our Times","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA186/English/C52/19181213p01.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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Die Volkswirtschaftslehre hatte bei vielen ihrer Bearbeiter doch die Tendenz, das volkswirtschaftliche Leben zu verbessern. Utopistische und solche Naturen, wie zum Beispiel die französischen Sozialisten Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Louis Blanc und andere, sie haben diese Tendenz im Auge. Sie haben etwa den folgenden Gedanken: Bis jetzt hat sich mehr oder weniger die Gesellschaft, weil sie sich selbst überlassen war, so entwickelt, daß ein großer Unterschied zwischen Armen und Reichen, Wohlhabenden und Elenden zutagegetreten ist. Das muß abgeändert werden. — Sie haben zu diesem Zwecke die Gesetze der Volkswirtschaft studiert, und haben die mannigfaltigsten Gedanken hervorgebracht, um diese Dinge abzuändern und irgendwelche Besserungen herbeizuführen. 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