{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 191/1919-10-10/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What has Europe got? Well, Europe has got the utmost necessity for solving the social question; but she has not got the temperament for the social question. To solve the social question, she would need to have the Asiatic temperament. The social necessities of Europe are such as to supply all the conditions requisite for a solution of the social question; but the Europeans would first need to become permeated through and through with the way of thought which is natural to the Asiatic, only the Asiatic has no gift for actually perceiving social needs as they exist externally. Often, indeed, he even acquiesces in them. In Europe, there is every external incentive to do something about the social question, but the temperament is lacking. On the other hand, there is in Europe, in the very strongest degree, the talent, the ability which would provide the soil for Freedom,—for the impulse of freedom. The strong point of European talents, specifically European talents, lies in developing in the very highest degree the inner sentiment, the inner feeling for freedom. One might say that the gift for getting to a real idea of Freedom is specifically European; but among these Europeans there are no people who act freely, who could make freedom a reality. Of Freedom as an idea, the Europeans can form the loftiest conception. But just as the Asiatic would be able to set about doing something, if he possessed the clear thought of the Europeans without their other failings, if he could only get the clear-out European idea of Freedom, so the European can evolve the most beautiful conception of Freedom, but there is no possibility, politically, of realising this idea of freedom through the direct agency of the European peoples, for, of the three essentials to civilisation,—the impulse for altruism, the impulse for freedom, the impulse for cosmogony,—the European possesses only one-third, the impulse for Freedom. The other two he has not got.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Europa hat die äußerste Notwendigkeit, die soziale Frage zu lösen, aber es hat keine Gesinnung für die soziale Frage. Es müßte eigentlich die asiatische Gesinnung haben, wenn es die soziale Frage lösen wollte. Alle Vorbedingungen zur Lösung der sozialen Frage sind aus den sozialen Notwendigkeiten in Europa da; aber es müßten sich die Europäer erst durchdringen mit jener Denkungsweise, die dem Asiaten natürlich ist; nur hat er kein Talent, wirklich äußerlich die soziale Not zu sehen. Oftmals gefällt sie ihm sogar. In Europa ist der äußere Antrieb da, irgend etwas in der sozialen Frage zu machen, aber es ist nicht die Gesinnung dazu da. Dafür ist in Europa in stärkstem Maße da das Talent, die Fähigkeit, den Impuls der Freiheit zu begründen. Dasjenige, was speziell europäische Talente sind, das ist dazu da, das innere Gefühl, die innere Empfindung der Freiheit im eminentesten Maße auszugestalten. Man kann sagen, es ist spezifisch europäische Begabung, zu einer wirklichen Idee der Freiheit zukommen. Aber diese Europäer haben keine Menschen, die frei handeln, die die Freiheit verwirklichen würden. Den Gedanken der Freiheit können die Europäer großartig fassen. Aber wie der Asiate sofort etwas zu tun wüßte, wenn er ohne die anderen europäischen Unarten, den ungetrübten Gedanken der europäischen Freiheit bekäme, so kann der Europäer die schönste Idee der Freiheit ausgestalten, aber es ist keine politische Möglichkeit da, diese Idee der Freiheit mit den Menschen Europas unmittelbar zu verwirklichen, weil der Europäer von den drei Zivilisationsbedingungen: Impuls zum Altruismus, Impuls zur Freiheit, Impuls zur Kosmogonie, nur das Drittel hat: den Impuls zur Freiheit — er hat die beiden anderen nicht. Und so hat auch der Europäer nur ein Drittel von dem, was notwendig ist, um ein wirklich neues Zeitalter heraufzubringen. Das ist sehr wichtig, daß man diese Dinge endlich als unsere Zivilisationsgeheimnisse einsieht. Wir haben in Europa, das dürfen wir ja sagen, in der allerschönsten Weise alle Vorbedingungen des Denkens, des Fühlens, um zu wissen, was Freiheit ist; aber wir haben keine Möglichkeit, ohne weiteres mit dieser Freiheit durchzudringen. Ich kann Ihnen zum Beispiel die Versicherung geben: Die schönsten Sachen sind in Deutschland von einzelnen Leuten über die Freiheit geschrieben worden in der Zeit, als ganz Deutschland geseufzt hat unter der Tyrannis von Ludendorff und anderen. Es ist ein Talent da in Europa zum Konzipieren des Freiheitsimpulses, aber zunächst ist dieser Impuls ein Drittel für das wirkliche Hinaufkommen in unserer Zivilisation, nicht das Ganze.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":401,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/191/1919-10-10/p014"}],"english":["GA 191/1919-10-10/p017","GA 191/1919-10-10/p018"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":401,"en_words":475,"ratio":1.18,"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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