{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-11/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The human being is to some extent hemmed in between two extremes, two polar opposites. These opposites come to his awareness as the law of nature and the order of the moral world. We have pointed out how, during the last hundred years, every world view which has become increasingly popular has failed to build a bridge between nature's laws and the moral order in the universe. Two aspects in the human being need to be scrutinized when we want to approach life- and world riddles in connection with these polarized opposites in nature and, let's say, the spiritual or even the moral world laws. Nature is undeniably a part of the human being; he or she is to a certain extent dependent upon the laws of nature in relation to his or her soul, but also upon their moral being. When wanting to experience oneself as truly human, one has to rely on being extracted from purely nature's laws, to sense oneself as standing in the world order, not just rising out of nature. Actually one needs the spiritual scientific approach to reach a clear understanding of the actual basis of what we are talking about. Let's point consequently to a, I might say, far-reaching mistaken observation, which prevents people from discovering an answer to the corresponding riddle lying hidden here. Traditionally it is believed people could reach an understanding of their own human reality (Wesenheit) by searching, if I may say so, for a relationship between the soul-spiritual and the bodily-physical within the human being as if it is somehow present there. People imagine that somehow within this bodily physical human existence the spiritual-physical exists and then they search for how the two are connected.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bridge Between Morality and Nature","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-11","location":null,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-11/p003","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Bridge between Morality and Nature","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-11/p003"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-11/p003","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Zwei Eigenschaften des Menschen wird man vor allen Dingen ins Auge fassen müssen, wenn man überhaupt sich den Lebens- und Weltenrätseln nähern will, die zusammenhängen mit diesen polarischen Gegensätzen der Natur und, sagen wir, des Geistes oder eben auch der moralischen Weltenordnung. Der Natur ist der Mensch zweifellos hingegeben; er ist gewissermaßen in Abhängigkeit von der Naturordnung mit Bezug auf sein Seelisches, also auch sein moralisches Wesen. Er ist aber auch darauf angewiesen, wenn er sich als wirklicher Mensch fühlen will, sich aus der bloßen Naturordnung herauszuheben, sich zu fühlen als in einer Weltenordnung stehend, die nicht in der Natur aufgeht, und man wird eigentlich nur auf geisteswissenschaftlichem Wege zu einer klaren Anschauung kommen können über das, was hier zugrunde liegt. Deuten wir zunächst hin auf eine, ich möchte sagen, durchgreifend irrtümliche Anschauung, die den Menschen zu einer Lösung entsprechender Rätsel, die hier verborgen liegen, nicht kommen läßt. Es wird aus alter Tradition heraus von den Menschen geglaubt, daß man einfach zum Verständnis der eigenen menschlichen Wesenheit kommen könne, indem man den Zusammenhang des Geistig-Seelischen mit dem Leiblich-Physischen im Menschen in irgendeiner Weise gegenwärtig, wenn ich so sagen darf, suchen kann. Man stellt sich vor, da sei das leibliche Wesen des Menschen, und in diesem leiblich-physischen Menschenwesen sei das Geistig-Seelische irgendwie darinnen. Und nun sucht man nach dem Zusammenhange. Es ist viel gesucht worden nach diesem Zusammenhange, und ein großer Teil des philosophischen Strebens der Menschheit ist eigentlich darauf aus, diese Frage zu lösen: Welcher Zusammenhang ist zwischen dem Geistig-Seelischen und dem Physisch-Leiblichen?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-11/p003"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-11/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":320,"en_words":287,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4851,"original_word_count":4932,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"The Bridge between Morality and Nature","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201211p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 202/1920-12-11/p003"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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