{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 198/1920-07-10/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today I would like to talk about how the human being initially finds himself in the world between two extremes in his inner experience. Let us dwell first on the inner experience of the human being. On the one hand, the human being experiences the world of ideas, but he experiences it in such a way that the more he immerses himself in this world of ideas, the more abstract and cold it appears to him. When man rises to the level of ideas, he feels that he cannot become inwardly warm. But he feels something quite different. He feels that in these ideas, which are then also expanded into natural laws, into world laws, he has something that, as an idea, does not include a reality, that as an idea is basically merely an image. Therefore, when faced with the world of ideas, the human being does not feel, let us say, that he wants to somehow implant his own existence in this world of ideas in a cognitive way. No matter how much the human being likes to reflect, he gradually retains the feeling, even with the most perfectly spun philosophy, that he cannot find proof of his real existence in the universe in the world of ideas. The ideas have something, as it were, rootless about them, as they are experienced in ordinary life between birth and death. That is the one, so to speak, the one pole of outer experience in ordinary existence: the abstract, sober, cold ideas, in which one cannot anchor, nor would one want to anchor, the reality of the actual human being. And finally, modern humanity has not warmed to Descartes' maxim: “I think, therefore I am” (cogito, ergo sum), because no matter how much people think, they also feel: there is no getting out of thinking for the time being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Thirteenth Lecture","site_heading":"Ideas and Growth Forces: Bridging Prenatal and Posthumous Existence","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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Er fühlt, daß er in diesen Ideen, die ja dann auch zu Naturgesetzen, zu Weltgesetzen erweitert werden, etwas hat, was als Idee nicht eine Realität einschließt, was als Idee im Grunde genommen bloß Bild ist. Daher fühlt sich der Mensch der Ideenwelt gegenüber nicht so, daß er, sagen wir, seine eigene Existenz irgendwie erkennend einpflanzen möchte in diese Ideenwelt. Der Mensch mag noch so viel bedenken und noch so gern bedenken, er bewahrt nach und nach auch bei der vollkommenst ausgesponnenen Philosophie das Gefühl, daß sich Beweise für sein reales Dasein im Weltenall aus der Ideenwelt nicht holen lassen. Die Ideen haben etwas gleichsam Wurzelloses, so wie sie erlebt werden im gewöhnlichen Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod. Das ist das eine, gewissermaßen der eine Pol des äußeren Erlebens im gewöhnlichen Dasein: die abstrakten, die nüchternen, kalten Ideen, in denen man nicht verankern kann, auch nicht verankern möchte die Realität der eigentlichen menschlichen Wesenheit. Und schließlich ist die neuere Menschheit doch nicht warm geworden bei dem Satze des Cartesius: Ich denke, also bin ich - cogito, ergo sum -, weil, wenn noch so viel gedacht wird, der Mensch eben fühlt: Aus dem Denken läßt sich zunächst nicht herausholen irgendein Sein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/198/1920-07-10/p004"}],"english":["GA 198/1920-07-10/p004"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":290,"en_words":309,"ratio":1.07,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5786,"original_word_count":5526,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Healing Factors for the Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA198/English/SOL2024/19200710p01.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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