{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 186/1918-12-15/p046","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The second thing that must be attained is a regulation of social conditions, such that before the law or constitution, before the government in fact, all men are equal: Liberty in spiritual matters; Equality in the State (for if you will, one third may continue to be called so); and Fraternity in relation to the economic life. I know well-written books which rightly emphasize that the three ideals, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity contradict one another; it is true, Equality decidedly contradicts Liberty. Very clever writers said this even in 1848 or even earlier. If we muddle everything together these things contradict one another. There must be *Liberty* in the spiritual and judicial domain, the domain of religion, education and jurisprudence. There must be *Equality* in the administration, in the government, the services of public security. There must be *Fraternity* in the economic domain. In the economic domain we have property, which must however be correspondingly developed in the future. In the domain of public security and administration we must have Equity or Right. In the domain of spiritual life and jurisprudence we must have *Liberty*. When divided into a trinity, these things are not in contradiction with one another. For here the things that contradict one another in thought are still in accordance with reality, because in the reality they are distributed to the different domains. The mere thought burrows for contradictions; but the reality lives in contradictions. We cannot grasp the reality if we cannot grasp the contradictions, follow them and deal with them in our thoughts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Metamorphosis of Intelligence","site_heading":null,"date":"1918-12-15","location":null,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/186/1918-12-15/p046","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/C52/19181215p01.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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Freiheit auf dem geistigen, juristischen Gebiete, der Religion, des Unterrichts, der Jurisprudenz; Gleichheit in der Verwaltung, in der Regierung, in dem Sicherheitsdienst; Brüderlichkeit auf ökonomischem Gebiete. - Auf ökonomischem Gebiete ist das Eigentum, das nur in entsprechender Weise für die Zukunft ausgebildet werden muß; auf dem Gebiete des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Verwaltung das Recht, und auf dem Gebiete des geistigen und juristischen Lebens die Freiheit. Wenn die Dinge nach der Trinität verteilt sind, widersprechen sie einander nicht. Denn dasjenige, was sich in Gedanken widerspricht, das ist deshalb wirklichkeitsgemäß, weil es in der Wirklichkeit auf Verschiedenes verteilt ist. Der Gedanke, der krebst nach Widersprüchen; die Wirklichkeit lebt aber nach Widersprüchen. Nun kann man die Wirklichkeit nicht erfassen, wenn man die Widersprüche nicht erfassen kann, wenn man in seinen Gedanken den Widersprüchen nicht nachkommt. Sie sehen aus alledem, daß die Geisteswissenschaft, wie sie hier gemeint ist, tatsächlich etwas zu sagen hat bei den wichtigsten Fragen der Gegenwart. 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