{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-09/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"From this point of view we may really say that the course taken by the development of the spiritual Movement directed to Anthroposophy has in the last few days taken a step forward; it has begun to show clearly to the spiritual life of humanity, how we must seek to illuminate modern methods of thought with a knowledge of Man; for it is a fact that the knowledge of Man has to a very great extent been lost in modern times. This was our aim in the course of lectures that has just been held for doctors, where an initial attempt was made to throw light in a positive way upon matters with which medical science has to concern itself. [*Published by *Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung*, Dornach, 1961, (third edition) with the title: *Geisteswissenschaft und Medizin*. English translation (now out of print) entitled: *Spiritual Science and Medicine*, can be borrowed from the Library, Rudolf Steiner House, London, N.W.I] In the series of lectures given by our friends and myself, we tried to show how a connection must be made between the individual sciences and what these can receive from Spiritual Science. It is very desirable that within our Movement there should be a strong consciousness of the need for such attempts; for if we are to succeed it is absolutely necessary to make clear to the outer world—in a sense, to compel it to understand—that here no kind of superficiality prevails in any domain, but rather an earnest striving for real knowledge. This is often hindered by the way in which things reach the public from our own circles, so that it is supposed, or may easily be maliciously pretended, that all kinds of sectarianism and dilettantism are allowed here. It is for us to convince the outer world more and more how earnest is the striving underlying all that this Movement represents. Such attempts must be carried further afield, and they must be carried further by the forces of the whole Anthroposophical Movement; for we have now made a beginning with a true knowledge of Man which must form the foundation of all true spiritual culture. It is true to say that from the middle of the fifteenth century, man's earlier concrete relation to the world has been growing more and more abstract. In olden times, through atavistic clairvoyance man knew much more of himself than he does today, for since the middle of the century intellectualism has spread over the whole of the so-called civilised world. Intellectualism is based upon a very small part in the being of Man, a very small part; and it produces accordingly no more than an abstract network of knowledge of the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture One","site_heading":"Human Nature and Cosmos: Recovering Living Knowledge","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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Das war ja etwas, was ganz durchleuchten mußte den eben für Ärzte gehaltenen Kursus, der insofern zu denjenigen Dingen gehört, durch die wir das Geistesleben versuchen mit Menschenerkenntnis zu durchdringen, als eben mit ihm ein erster Versuch gemacht worden ist, in positiver Weise in die Notwendigkeiten, die heute für bestimmte Fachwissenschaften vorliegen, hineinzuleuchten. Und nach außen zeigte sich das durch die Reihe von Vorträgen, die hier von unseren Freunden und von mir gehalten worden sind und in denen gezeigt werden sollte, wie das Verhältnis sich zu gestalten hat der einzelnen Fachwissenschaften zu dem, was sie als Impuls dutch die Geisteswissenschaft erhalten können. Es wäre durchaus wünschenswert, daß ein recht starkes Bewußtsein vorhanden wäre innerhalb unserer geisteswissenschaftlichen Bewegung von der Notwendigkeit solcher Unternehmungen. Denn sollen wir gedeihen, so haben wir durchaus nötig, der Außenwelt klarzumachen, sie gewissermaßen zu zwingen zum Verständnis davon, daß hier in keiner Weise der Dilettantismus gefördert werden soll auf irgendeinem Gebiete, sondern daß hier ernste Erkenntnis angestrebt werden muß. Das ist ja dasjenige, was oftmals auch verhindert wird durch die Art, wie aus unseren Kreisen selbst unsere Dinge in die Öffentlichkeit dringen, so daß man von dieser Öffentlichkeit aus dann glaubt - oder auch böswilligerweise es leicht so motivieren kann -, daß hier alles mögliche Sektiererische und aller mögliche Dilettantismus vertreten werde. Immer mehr und mehr muß einfach diese Außenwelt davon überzeugt werden, wie ernst es ist mit dem Streben, das all dem zugrunde liegt, für das dieser Bau hier der Repräsentant ist. Und getragen werden müßten eben im weiteren eigentlich solche Unternehmungen, wie diejenigen waren, die wir nun länger, durch einige Wochen, haben hier ablaufen sehen, von den Kräften der ganzen anthroposophischen Bewegung. Denn dadurch wird der Anfang gemacht mit einer wirklichen Menschenerkenntnis, die die Grundlage bilden muß für alle wahre Geisteskultur. Seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts ist immer mehr und mehr - ich möchte sagen - filtriert worden, verabstrahiert worden das konkretere Verhältnis, das die Menschen früher zur Welt gehabt haben. Der Mensch wußte allerdings durch atavistische Erkenntnisse viel mehr über sich selbst in alten Zeiten, als er heute weiß. Denn seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts ist eben über die ganze sogenannte zivilisierte Welt ausgedehnt worden der Intellektualismus. Der Intellektualismus stützt sich nur auf einen kleinen Teil, auf einen ganz kleinen Teil im Wesen des Menschen. Und weil sich dieser Intellektualismus nur auf einen ganz kleinen Teil im Wesen des Menschen stützt, gibt er auch von der Welterkenntnis nur ein abstraktes Netz.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":472,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-09/p006"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-04-09/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":472,"en_words":449,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4607,"original_word_count":4861,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George Adams and Mary Adams","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/19200409a01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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