{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-09/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"By all this I wanted only to show how modern cosmogony has no more than a last remnant of external abstraction when it speaks of the three planes perpendicular to one another, to which the positions and movements of the stars are quite indifferently related, and then according to these positions the whole Universe calculated out as a machine. In the astronomical conception of Galileo, only this one thing is taken into consideration for the Universe— *abstract space*, with its point relationships. This knowledge can however be enlarged to become an active and powerful knowledge of Man. One can say: Man is a thinking, feeling and willing being. As an external being, he is connected by Thinking with one plane, with another at right angles to it by Willing, and with a third at right angles to both by Feeling. This must apply also in the external world. Since the middle of the fifteenth century, man has really known no more than that he extends in three directions; all else is just material collected for observation. A true knowledge of Man must be regained, and indirectly a knowledge of the Cosmos by the same method. Then man will understand how Necessity and Free Will are related, and how *both* can apply to Man, since he is born from the Cosmos. Naturally if one only takes this last remnant of the human being—the three dimensions at right angles to one another—if that is all one wants to imagine, then the Universe appears terribly poor. Poor, infinitely poor is our present astronomical view of the Universe; and it will not become richer until we press forward to a real knowledge of Man, until we really learn to look into Man.","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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Als äußerlich räumliches Wesen hat sein Denken etwas zu tun mit einer Ebene, sein Wollen mit einer darauf senkrecht stehenden Ebene, sein Fühlen wiederum mit einer darauf senkrecht stehenden Ebene. Dies muß sich auch beziehen auf die äußere Welt. Eigentlich richtig wissen tut ja der Mensch seit der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts überhaupt gar nichts anderes, als daß er nach den drei abstrakten Dimensionen ausgedehnt ist. Das andere sind ja bloß Wissensnotizen, das andere ist bloß aufgesammeltes Beobachtungsmaterial. Es muß wiederum errungen werden eine wirkliche Menschenerkenntnis, dann wird auf dem Umwege durch die Menschenerkenntnis auch eine Welterkenntnis errungen werden. Und dann wird man verstehen lernen, wie Notwendigkeit und Freiheit zusammenhängen können, wie sie beide im Menschen Platz haben können, indem der Mensch aus der Welt heraus geboren ist. Denn natürlich, wenn man nur diesen letzten Rest menschlichen Wesens, die drei aufeinander senkrecht stehenden Dimensionen, nimmt und als dasjenige auffaßt, was man noch begreifen will, dann erscheint einem auch das Weltenall ungeheuer arm, unendlich arm. Und unendlich arm ist unsere heutige astronomische Weltanschauung. Aber sie wird nicht reicher werden, wenn wir nicht erst zu einer wirklichen Menschenerkenntnis vordringen, wenn wir nicht erst lernen, in den Menschen wirklich hineinzuschauen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-09/p016"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-04-09/p017"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":286,"en_words":288,"ratio":1.01,"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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