{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 190/1919-03-23/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We have entered the fifth post-Atlantean period since the middle of the 15th century. Before this period expires, people have to learn to control their thinking as well as their arms and legs. Then the real task of this fifth post-Atlantean period will be accomplished for those people who can do it. You see, it is a matter of seriousness if one wants to consider that which, so to speak, is coming up on the horizon of the development of mankind in the present age. Now, however, with what I have just indicated, something essentially different will be connected with this mastering of thinking. The more people begin to master thinking, the more they will be able to imagine, to have imaginations. And imaginations are needed by people, because only through them can the social instincts develop into the anti-social instincts that are so often at work today, so that through imaginations people gain the ability to really put themselves in the place of other people, of their fellow human beings. One cannot put oneself in the place of one's fellow human beings by mere abstract thinking. Abstract thinking makes people stubborn, abstract thinking makes them listen only to their own opinions. And above all, abstract thinking causes man to shut himself off more or less from that mobility which one needs in order to be able to live with the spiritual world. That one cannot easily live with the spiritual world today, you can see from a very specific phenomenon, which is extraordinarily frequent today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Spiritual Development and the Crisis of Materialistic Thought","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Bevor dieser abläuft, müssen tat-sächlich die Menschen lernen, ihr Denken so zu beherrschen wie ihre Arme und ihre Beine. Dann wird die eigentliche Aufgabe dieses fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraums für diejenigen Menschen erfüllt werden, die das können. Sie sehen, es handelt sich um Ernstes, wenn man dasjenige in Erwägung ziehen will, was gewissermaßen am Horizonte der Menschheitsentwickelung im heutigen Zeitalter heraufzieht. Nun wird aber mit dem, was ich eben angedeutet habe, mit diesem Beherrschen des Denkens etwas wesentlich anderes verknüpft sein. Die Menschen werden, je mehr sie das Denken zu beherrschen beginnen, desto mehr in die Lage kommen, wieder bildlich vorzustellen, Imaginationen zu haben. Und Imaginationen werden gebraucht von den Menschen, denn nur dadurch können sich in die heute vielfach wirkenden anti-sozialen Triebe die sozialen Triebe hineinentwickeln, daß die Menschen durch Imaginationen die Fähigkeit bekommen, sich so recht in die anderen Menschen, in ihre Mitmenschen hineinzuversetzen. Man kann sich nicht durch das bloße abstrakte Denken in die Mitmenschen hineinversetzen. Das abstrakte Denken macht eigensinnig, das abstrakte Denken bringt den Menschen dazu, bloß auf seine eigenen Meinungen zu hören. Und vor allen Dingen bringt das abstrakte Denken den Menschen dazu, überhaupt sich abzuschließen mehr oder weniger von jener Beweglichkeit, die man braucht, um mit der geistigen Welt leben zu können. Daß man heute nicht leicht mit der geistigen Welt leben kann, das können Sie an einer ganz bestimmten Erscheinung, die heute außerordentlich häufig ist, sehen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":248,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/190/1919-03-23/p005"}],"english":["GA 190/1919-03-23/p004"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":248,"en_words":256,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4426,"original_word_count":4264,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"SOL2023","book_title":"Past and Future Impulses in Society","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA190/English/SOL2023/19190323p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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