{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-14/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I know, my dear friends, how many people will read just such a passage, taking it as an empty phrase. Yet it is truly symptomatic. For here, every now and then, there peers over the shoulder of the human soul something that is real fact. It is indeed the Ahrimanic spirit who leads men round and round in a circle, making them think in the way of Avenarius and Mach. And at such moments Mach suddenly becomes aware of it. And it is the same Ahrimanic spirit who is working now, in the Bolshevist way of thought. Hence it is no wonder, my dear friends, that the logic of realities has produced this result. You see, however, that if we would understand the things of life, we must look into them more deeply. Truly this is of no small importance, especially for the domain of social life, today and in the near future. For the conclusions that must be drawn are not such as were drawn by Schmoller or Brentano, Wagner, Spencer, John Stuart Mill or whoever it may be. No, in the domain of social life, *real* conclusions must be drawn, i.e., conclusions according to the logic of realities. This is the bad thing, that in the social agitations and movements of today, and in all that they have produced, merely logical deductions—i.e., illusions—are living. Illusions have become external reality. I will give you two examples. The one is already well-known to you, you will only need to see it in the light in which I shall now place it.","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":261,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-14/p027","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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Aber solch eine Stelle ist symptomatisch. Da guckt manchmal über die Schultern der Seele dasjenige, was wahrhaftiger Tatbestand ist. Es ist der ahrimanische Geist, der die Menschen im Kreise herumführt, daß sie so denken, wie Avenarius und Mach denken. Und Mach wird in solchen Augenblicken auf diesen ahrimanischen Geist aufmerksam. Es ist derselbe ahrimanische Geist, der nun auch in der bolschewistischen Denkweise wirkt. Daher ist es kein Wunder, daß die Wirklichkeitslogik dieses als Ergebnis geliefert hat. Sie sehen aber, man muß, wenn man die Dinge des Lebens einsehen will, tiefer in dieses Leben hineinschauen. Das ist wahrhaftig gerade auf sozialem Gebiete heute und für die nächste Zukunft nicht unbedeutend. Denn die Schlußfolgerungen, die gezogen werden müssen, sind nicht solche, wie sie Schmoller oder Brentano, Wagner, Spencer, John Stuart Mill oder wer immer gezogen haben, sondern auf dem sozialen Gebiete müssen wirklichkeitsgemäße, logisch wirklichkeitsgemäße Schlußfolgerungen gezogen werden. Und das Schlimme ist, daß in unseren gegenwärtigen agitatorischen Bestrebungen und in dem, was aus diesen agitatorischen Bestrebungen geworden ist, den bloß logischen Schlußfolgerungen, Illusionen leben, und Illusionen äußere Wirklichkeit geworden sind. Dafür will ich Ihnen zwei Beispiele anführen. Das eine kennen Sie schon gut, nur brauchen Sie noch die Beleuchtung, in die ich das Beispiel jetzt rücke.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/186/1918-12-14/p021"}],"english":["GA 186/1918-12-14/p027"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":219,"en_words":261,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.09,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9153,"original_word_count":8380,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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. 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