{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 18a/volume_i_kant_and_goethe/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This powerful personality, whose gaze was directed entirely inwards, was reluctant to seek the highest that man can achieve, a world view, anywhere other than within himself. \"All *culture* should be the exercise of all forces towards the *one* purpose of complete freedom, i.e. complete independence from everything that is not ourselves, our pure self (reason, moral law), *for only this is ours*...\" This is Fichte's judgment in the \"Contributions to the Correction of the Public's Judgments on the French Revolution\" published in 1793. And the most valuable power in man, the power of cognition, should not be directed towards this *one* purpose of being completely independent of everything that is not ourselves? Could we ever achieve complete independence if we were dependent on any being in our view of the world? If it were determined by such a being outside us what nature is, what our soul is, what our duties are, and we then obtained knowledge *behind* from such a ready-made fact? If we are independent, then we must also be independent with regard to the knowledge of truth. If we receive something that has arisen without our intervention, then we are dependent on it. So we cannot receive the highest truth. We must create it; it must arise through us. Fichte can therefore only place at the top of the world view something that first attains its existence through us. When we say of any thing in the external world: it is, we do so because we perceive it. We know that *we* attribute existence to *another* being. What this other thing is does not depend on us. We can only recognize its nature if we focus our perceptive faculty on it. We would never know what \"red\", \"warm\", \"cold\" is if we did not know it through perception. We cannot add anything to these qualities of things, we cannot take anything away from them. We say \" *they are*\". *What* they are: that is what *they* tell us. It is completely different with our own existence. Man does not say to himself: \"it is\", but: \" *I am*\". In doing so, however, he has not only said: *that* he is, but also: what he is, namely an \"I\". Only an *other* being could say of me: \"it is\". Yes, it *would* have to say so. For even if this other being had created me, it could not say of *my* existence: *I* am. The statement: \" *I* am\" loses all meaning if the being that speaks of its existence does not do so itself. There is therefore nothing in the world that can address me as \"I\" other than myself. This recognition of myself as an \"I\" must therefore be my very own act. No being other than me can have any influence on it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Age of Kant and Goethe","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":469,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/18a/volume_i_kant_and_goethe/p032","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Worldviews in the 19th Century","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA018a/English/SOL2024/GA018a0103.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Und die wertvollste Kraft im Menschen, die Erkenntniskraft, sollte nicht auf diesen *einen* Zweck des völligen Unabhängigseins von allem, was nicht wir selbst sind, gerichtet sein? Könnten wir denn überhaupt je zu einem völligen Unabhängigsein kommen, wenn wir in der Weltanschauung von irgend welchem Wesen abhängig wären? Wenn es durch ein solches außer uns gelegenes Wesen ausgemacht wäre, was die Natur, was unsere Seele, welches unsere Pflichten sind, und wir dann *hinterher* von einer solchen fertigen Thatsache aus uns ein Wissen verschafften? Sind wir unabhängig, dann müssen wir es auch in Bezug auf die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sein. Wenn wir etwas empfangen, das ohne unser Zuthun entstanden ist, dann sind wir von diesem abhängig. Die höchste Wahrheit können wir also nicht empfangen. Wir müssen sie schaffen; sie muß durch uns entstehen. Fichte kann somit an die Spitze der Weltanschauung nur etwas stellen, was durch uns erst sein Dasein erlangt. Wenn wir von irgend einem Dinge der Außenwelt sagen: es ist, so thun wir dies deshalb, weil wir es wahrnehmen. Wir wissen, daß *wir* einem *andern* Wesen das Dasein zuerkennen. Was dieses andere Ding ist, das hängt nicht von uns ab. Seine Beschaffenheit können wir nur erkennen, wenn wir unser Wahrnehmungsvermögen darauf richten. Wir würden niemals wissen, was „rot“, „warm“, „kalt“ ist, wenn wir es nicht durch die Wahrnehmung wüßten. Wir können zu diesen Beschaffenheiten der Dinge nichts hinzuthun, nichts von ihnen wegnehmen. Wir sagen „*sie sind*“. *Was* sie sind: das sagen *sie* uns. Ganz anders ist es mit unserm eigenen Dasein. Zu sich selbst sagt der Mensch nicht: „es ist“, sondern: „*Ich bin*“. Damit hat er aber nicht bloß gesagt: daß er ist, sondern auch: *was* er ist, nämlich ein „Ich“. Nur ein *anderes* Wesen könnte von mir sagen: „es ist“. Ja, es *müßte* so sagen. Denn selbst, wenn dieses andere Wesen mich geschaffen hätte, könnte es von *meinem* Dasein nicht sagen: ich bin. Der Ausspruch: „*ich bin*“ verliert allen Sinn, wenn ihn das Wesen, das von seinem Dasein spricht, nicht selbst thut. Es giebt somit nichts in der Welt, was mich mit „ich“ ansprechen kann als allein mich selbst. Diese Anerkennung meiner als eines „Ich“ muß demnach meine ureigenste That sein. 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