{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-13/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is a very law in the modern evolution of mankind. Take what I said before as an external characterization of the modern striving. Man strives to know what he is as Man, what he is worth as Man, what is his strength and potentiality as Man. Man strives to see himself as Man, to arrive at a picture of his own Being. But we cannot arrive at a picture of Man if we are determined to remain within the world of the senses, for he is no mere physical being. In times of instinctive evolution, when one does not ask for a picture of Man, when one does not ask what is the dignity and strength of Man, one may overlook this fact—that to know Man one must transcend the world of the senses and gaze into the spiritual world. But in our age of consciousness, we *must* make acquaintance, at any rate in one form or another, be it only intellectually, with the super-sensible world. The same thing that the Initiate has to overcome consciously is working in our age unconsciously. Unconsciously as yet, there lives in our contemporaries, and in the men whose social thoughts I have described today, this fear of the Unknown—the Unknown which they are nonetheless being driven to observe. Fear, cowardice, lack of courage, is dominating the humanity of today. And if it is declared: “Economic life is the tangible thing which determines all other things,” this view itself has arisen simply through the fear of the invisible and the intangible. This they will not approach, they will avoid it at all costs, and so they lyingly transform it into an ideology, a Fata Morgana. The modern world-conception, my dear friends, is born of fear and terror in relation to those points which I have characterized. However outwardly courageous some of those within the stream of the modern social world-conception may show themselves to be, they are afraid of the Spiritual, which must meet them in one form or another, and in whose domain, after all, they long to know the human being. But they are afraid of it; like cowards, they recoil from it.","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":362,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-13/p037","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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Nehmen Sie das, was ich vorhin als äußerliche Charakteristik des modernen Strebens vorgeführt habe. Der Mensch strebt danach, zu erkennen, was er ist als Mensch, was er wert ist als Mensch, welche Kraft er hat, was seine Würde ist als Mensch. Der Mensch strebt danach, sich als Menschen selber anzuschauen, endlich zu einem Bilde seines eigenen Wesens zu kommen. Man kann nicht zu einem Bilde des Menschen kommen, wenn man innerhalb der Sinneswelt stehenbleiben will, denn der Mensch erschöpft sich nicht in der Sinneswelt, der Mensch ist nicht bloß ein sinnliches Wesen. In den Zeitaltern der instinktiven Entwickelung, wo man nicht nach einem Bilde des Menschen oder nach der Menschenwürde oder nach der Menschenkraft fragt, da kann man vorbeigehen an der Tatsache, daß, wenn man den Menschen erkennen will, man aus der Sinneswelt hinausgehen und in die geistige Welt hineinsehen muß, daß man mit der übersinnlichen Welt wenigstens in irgendeiner Form intellektuell in unserem Zeitalter des Bewußtseins Bekanntschaft machen muß. Da wirkt aber dann unbewußt dasselbe, was bewußt der zu Initiierende zu überwinden hat. Unbewußt wirkt zunächst noch in unseren Zeitgenossen und in den Menschen, deren soziale Gedanken ich Ihnen geschildert habe, diese Furcht vor dem Unbekannten, das betrachtet werden muß. Furcht, Mutlosigkeit, Feigheit, das ist es, wovon die moderne Menschheit beherrscht ist. Und wenn diese moderne Menschheit sagt: Wirtschaft ist das Handgreifliche, was alles bewirkt — so ist diese Anschauung dadurch entstanden, daß man sich fürchtet vor dem, was unsichtbar ist, was nicht handgreiflich ist. Dem will man sich nicht nähern, das will man vermeiden, das biegt man zur Ideologie, zur Fata Morgana um. Und man biegt es deshalb zur Ideologie, zur Fata Morgana um, weil man sich davor fürchtet. Ein Furcht-, ein Angstpunkt ist die moderne soziale Weltanschauung in bezug auf diejenigen Punkte, die ich Ihnen charakterisiert habe. Mögen manche Menschen, die sich innerhalb des Strebens dieser modernen sozialen Weltanschauung äußerlich noch so mutvoll zeigen, auf der einen Seite noch so couragiert sein — vor dem Spirituellen, das ihnen entgegentreten muß in irgendeiner Form, worin sie den Menschen kennenlernen wollen, vor dem haben sie Furcht, vor dem treten sie feig zurück. 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