{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 199/1920-08-21/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Genuine knowledge of the impulses holding sway in humanity, knowledge that must be acquired if we wish to take a Position in life in any direction, is possible only if we attempt to go deeply into the differences of soul conditions existing between the members of the human race. In respect to the right progress for all mankind, it is certainly necessary that human beings understand one another, that an element common to all men is present. This common element, however, can only develop when we focus on the varieties of soul dispositions and developments that exist among the different members of humanity. In an age of abstract thinking and mere intellectualism such as the one in which we find ourselves, people are only too prone to look only for the abstract common denominators. Because of this they fail to arrive at the actual concrete unity, for it is precisely by grasping the differences that one comprehends the former. From any number of viewpoints, I have referred in particular to the mutual relationships resulting out of these differences between the world's population of the West and East. Today, I should like to point to such differentiations from yet another standpoint.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VII","site_heading":"Eastern Spirituality, Western Economics, and Central European Rights","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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Aber dieses Gemeinschaftliche kann sich nur entwickeln, wenn der Blick gerichtet wird auf das, was als Verschiedenheiten in den Seelenveranlagungen, in den Seelenentwikkelungen bei den verschiedenen Gliedern der Menschheit da ist. In einem Zeitalter des abstrakten Denkens, des bloßen Intellektualismus, wie es dasjenige ist, in dem wir jetzt leben, sieht man zu gerne nur nach den abstrakten Einheiten. Dadurch kommt man überhaupt nicht zum Verständnis der wirklichen konkreten Einheit. Man muß gerade durch das Erfassen der Verschiedenheiten zu der Einheit kommen. Und ich habe von den verschiedensten Gesichtspunkten aus hingewiesen namentlich auf die gegenseitigen Beziehungen, die sich zwischen dem Westen und dem Osten der Erdenbevölkerung aus diesen Verschiedenheiten heraus ergeben. Heute möchte ich wiederum von einem andern Gesichtspunkte auf solche Differenzierungen innerhalb der Menschheit hinweisen. Wenn man heute dasjenige nimmt, was einem gewöhnlich in die Augen fällt, wenn man auf die allgemeine Bildung hinsieht, was hat man denn dann eigentlich? Man hat, wenn man den Blick auf das richtet, was gewissermaßen die meisten Menschen in der zivilisierten Welt als ihre Gedankenformen haben, im Grunde genommen darinnen etwas, was im wesentlichen westliche Färbung und seinen Ursprung in der besonderen Charakterveranlagung des Westens hat. Ich meine so: Wenn Sie heute eine Zeitung in die Hand nehmen, die in Amerika, in England, in Frankreich, in Deutschland, in Österreich oder in Rußland erscheint, so werden Sie ja gewiß verspüren, daß da gewisse Unterschiede in der Art des Denkens und so weiter sind, aber Sie werden ein Gemeinsames bemerken. Dieses Gemeinsame rührt aber nicht davon her, daß etwa, wenn ich da das westliche Gebiet, da das mittlere Gebiet und da das Ostgebiet habe (siehe Zeichnung), dasjenige, was, sagen wir, in den Zeitungen und auch in den gewöhnlichen populären und wissenschaftlichen Literaturwerken zutage tritt, überall aufsteigen würde aus dem, was in den Tiefen der Volkstümer ruht. Sie lesen nicht zum Beispiel in einer Petersburger Zeitung, was aus dem Volkstum des Russentums aufsteigt, Sie lesen heute nicht einmal in einer Wiener oder Berliner Zeitung, was aus dem Volkstum der mittleren Welt aufsteigt, sondern dasjenige, was die Grundkonfiguration, den Grundcharakter angibt, das ist im Grunde genommen aus dem Westen aufgestiegen und hat sich hier in diese einzelnen Gebiete herein ergossen. 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