{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One can but ask:—Does not the root of the matter perhaps lie really deeper? It does lie deeper; and in this way:—People to-day—and I have here often pointed out the same thing from different aspects,—people to-day are too much bent upon the absolute. When they ask: “What is true?” they mean, “What Is true absolutely?”—not what is true of a particular age. When they ask, “What is good?” they are asking, “What is good absolutely?” They are not asking, “What is good for Europe? What is good for Asia? What is good for the 20th century? What is good for the 25th century?” They are asking about *absolute* Goodness and Truth. They are not asking about what actually exists in the concrete evolution of mankind. We must put the question to ourselves in a different way, for we must look at the actuality of things, and from the point of view of actuality; questions must be differently put, very often so put that the answers seem paradoxical compared with what one is inclined to assume from a surface view of things. We must ask ourselves: Is there no possibility of arriving once more at a mode of conception which is cosmogonical, which takes in the universe as a whole? Is there no possibility of arriving at an impulse of freedom which shall be an actual influence in social life? Is there no possibility for an impulse which shall be religious and at the same time an impulse of brotherhood, and therefore the real basis for an economic social order? Is there no possibility^ of arriving at such an impulse? And if we put these questions before us from a real aspect, then we get real answers. For the point, we have here to remember is this: that the various types of people on the earth to-day are not all adapted to the whole all-comprehensive universal truth, but that the various types of men are only adapted to particular fields of the true activity. We must ask ourselves; Where in the life of earth to-day may there, perhaps, exist the possibility for a cosmogony to evolve? Where does the possibility exist for a sweeping impulse of freedom to evolve? And where does the impulse exist for a communal life among men, which is religious and also, in a social sense, brotherly?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Social Impulses for the Healing of Modern Civilization","site_heading":null,"date":"1919-10-10","location":null,"word_count":390,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/191/1919-10-10/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LA1963","book_title":"Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/LA1963/19191010p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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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Sie liegt nämlich so, daß die Menschen heute — wie ich von anderen Gesichtspunkten aus schon öfter hier ausgeführt habe - allzusehr nach dem Absoluten drängen. Wenn sie fragen: Was ist wahr? — so fragen sie danach: Was ist im absoluten Sinne wahr? - nicht: Was ist für ein bestimmtes Zeitalter wahr? Wenn sie fragen: Was ist gut? - so fragen sie: Was ist im absoluten Sinne gut? — Sie fragen nicht: Was ist für Europa gut? Was ist für Asien gut? Was ist für das 20. Jahrhundert gut, was ist für das 25. Jahrhundert gut? — Sie fragen nach dem absoluten Gutsein und Wahrsein. Sie fragen nicht nach dem, was in der konkreten Entwickelung der Menschheit wirklich ist. Wir aber müssen uns die Frage anders stellen, denn wir müssen auf die Wirklichkeit sehen, und aus der Wirklichkeit heraus müssen die Fragen anders gestellt werden, oftmals so gestellt werden, daß ihre Antworten paradox erscheinen gegenüber dem, was man aus der Beobachtung der Oberfläche der Dinge anzunehmen geneigt ist. Wir müssen uns fragen: Gibt es keine Möglichkeit, zu einer kosmogonischen Vorstellungsart wiederum zu kommen? Gibt es keine Möglichkeit, zu einem wirklich sozial wirkenden Impuls der Freiheit zu kommen? Gibt es keine Möglichkeit zu einem Impuls, der religiös und ein Impuls der Brüderlichkeit zugleich ist, also eine wirkliche Grundlage der ökonomisch sozialen Ordnung ist, gibt es keine Möglichkeit, zu einem solchen Impulse zu kommen? —- Und wenn wir uns aus der Realität heraus diese Fragen vorlegen, dann gewinnen wir auch reale Antworten; denn dasjenige, um was es sich dabei handelt, das ist dieses: daß in der Gegenwart nicht alle Menschenarten veranlagt sind, zur ganzen umfassenden Weltenwahrheit zu kommen, sondern daß die verschiedenen Menschenarten der Erde nur veranlagt sind, zu Teilgebieten des wahren Wirkens zu kommen. Und wir müssen uns fragen: Wo ist vielleicht im gegenwärtigen Erdenleben die Möglichkeit vorhanden, daß eine Kosmogonie sich entwickle, wo ist die Möglichkeit vorhanden, daß ein durchgreifender Impuls der Freiheit sich entwickle, und wo ist der Impuls vorhanden zu einem religiösen und brüderlichen Zusammenleben der Menschen im sozialen Sinne?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":359,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-10-10/p011"}],"english":["GA 191/1919-10-10/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":359,"en_words":390,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.17,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7938,"original_word_count":6808,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"LA1963","book_title":"Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/LA1963/19191010p02.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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