{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-14/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This necessitates, however, my dear friends, that we should at length learn that we cannot *only* call proof the so-called logical sequences to which modern thinking has grown accustomed. Unless we learn this, we shall never arrive at a true understanding of things. In the domain in which I have been speaking to you now for some weeks—in the domain of social life, of the structure of human society, many new demands result simply from the fundamental premises that I have set before you concerning the three-fold division of society which will be necessary for the future. One such result is, for example, a quite definite system of taxation. But this system of taxation, once more, can only be found by calling to our help the logic of things seen. The mere logic of thought is insufficient. It is this that makes it necessary that men should listen to those who *know* something of these things, for when the thing has once been said, then the healthy human intelligence, my dear friends, will *always* suffice; it can always corroborate and “control” what the spiritual researcher says. The healthy human understanding, however, is something very different from the logic of thought, which is developed especially through the way of thinking that is prevalent today, soaked and steeped as it is in the natural-scientific point of view. From all this you will understand that spiritual science is not intended merely to make us receive a certain collection of ideas and then think that we can handle these ideas much as we would handle information we acquire through natural science or the like. That is absolutely impossible and is not to be imagined for a moment. If we think that we are making a great mistake. Spiritual Science makes a man *think in an altogether new way*. It makes him comprehend the world in an altogether different way than he has done before, it makes him learn not merely to perceive other things than before, but to perceive in a new way. When you enter into spiritual science you must always bear this in mind, you must be able to ask yourself again and again: Am I learning to look at the world in a new way through my receiving of Spiritual Science—not clairvoyance but Spiritual Science—am I learning to look at the world in another way from what I have done hitherto? For indeed, my dear friends, one who regards Spiritual Science as a collection of facts, a compendium of knowledge, may well know a great deal, but if he still only thinks in the same way as he thought before, then he has not received Spiritual Science. He has only taken up Spiritual Science if the manner, the form, the structure of his thinking has changed, if in a certain respect he has become another man than he was before. And this can only come about through the might and the power of the ideas which we receive through Spiritual Science.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Logic of Thought and the Logic of Reality","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-14","location":null,"word_count":500,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p009","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/C52/19181214p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Mit einer bloßen Gedankenlogik kommt man da nicht zu Rande. Das ist es, was notwendig macht, daß man diejenigen höre, die über diese Dinge etwas wissen; denn wenn die Sache gesagt ist, dann kann der gesunde Menschenverstand, wenn er alle Seiten berücksichtigt, die Sache entscheiden. Der gesunde Menschenverstand, meine lieben Freunde, wird immer ausreichen; der kann immer nachkontrollieren, was der Geistesforscher sagt. Aber der gesunde Menschenverstand ist etwas anderes als die Gedankenlogik, die — namentlich durch die naturwissenschaftlich durchtränkte Denkweise der Gegenwart — heraufgezogen ist. Daraus aber ersehen Sie, daß Geisteswissenschaft selber nicht bloß die Wirkung haben soll auf den Menschen, daß er eine bestimmte Summe von Vorstellungen empfängt und dann glaubt, daß er diese Vorstellungen so behandeln könne wie irgend etwas anderes, was ihm heute durch die Wissenschaft oder dergleichen mitgeteilt wird. Das ist eben durchaus nicht möglich und nicht zu denken. Denn denkt man es, so denkt man in die Irre. Geisteswissenschaft macht, daß die ganze Art zu denken, die Art, die Welt aufzufassen, beim Menschen eine andere wird als sie vorher war, daß der Mensch lernt, nicht nur gründlich einzusehen, sondern auf andere Art einzusehen. Das müssen Sie vor allen Dingen, wenn Sie sich mit der Geisteswissenschaft durchdringen, ins Auge fassen, natürlich ins Seelenauge, daß Sie sich immer fragen können: Lerne ich auf eine andere Weise die Welt anschauen dadurch, daß ich diese Geisteswissenschaft aufnehme - nicht das Hellsehen, sondern die Geisteswissenschaft —, lerne ich auf eine andere Weise die Welt ansehen, als ich sie früher angesehen habe? — Ja, es kann einer, der Geisteswissenschaft als eine Summe von Kompendien betrachtet, sehr vieles wissen; aber wenn er gerade nur so denkt, wie er vorher auch gedacht hat, dann hat er nicht die Geisteswissenschaft aufgenommen. Geisteswissenschaft hat er erst aufgenommen, wenn sich in gewisser Beziehung die Art, die Formation, die Struktur seines Denkens geändert hat, wenn in einer gewissen Beziehung aus ihm ein anderer Mensch geworden ist als er früher war. 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