{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-11/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In recent times a new way of thinking has started regarding the world's natural order. Originating from the West it is regarded as emerging out of forces of external nature which can only be perceived by our senses. There is—we have already examined this from various points of view—the enormous contrast of the East with the West. In the East mankind is inclined towards a one-sided view of the soul-spiritual, in the West mankind turns to the only concept of the physical bodily element. That is applied to all human observation. Normally no one considers how radically different concepts about mankind are all over the world. The considerations real westerners enter into when considering mankind, is something quite foreign to easterners. When an easterner talks about mankind then the argument implies something non-existent on earth. The easterner directs his gaze, actually his soul glance on to that which basically is untouched by the earth. If one has the prehistoric oriental world view then no consideration would be given to anyone who is born and anything which is regulated by evolution of mankind or anything which has a physical sensory existence. A person is entirely a spiritual soul being and doesn't develop any right sense for a physical sensory existence. This has an important influence on everything the oriental thinks about. Today this has fallen into decadence but in olden times it was openly expressed regarding the way oriental thought related to human beings as social beings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Bridge Between Morality and Nature","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-11","location":null,"word_count":246,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-11/p021","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/p021"},{"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/p021","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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Die ist, wie sie zunächst im Westen aufgegangen ist, so, daß sie die Welt nur aus den Kräften heraus begreift, welche in der äußeren Natur auf sinnesgemäße Art zu beobachten sind. Sie kann nicht zu einer moralischen Weltordnung kommen. Das ist ja — wir haben das schon von verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten aus betrachtet — der ungeheure Gegensatz des Ostens mit dem Westen, daß im Osten die Menschheit veranlagt war für ein einseitiges Begreifen des Geistig-Seelischen, im Westen zunächst die Menschheit hintendiert auf ein einseitiges Begreifen des Physisch-Leiblichen. Das überträgt sich dann auf alle übrigen menschlichen Anschauungen. Man beachtet ja gewöhnlich gar nicht, wie radikal verschieden die Begriffe der Menschen über die Erde hin sind. Dasjenige, was der richtige Westländer in die Betrachtung hereinbekommt, wenn er vom Menschen spricht, das ist ja etwas, was dem Ostländer ganz fern liegt. Wenn der Ostländer vom Menschen spricht, dann redet er eigentlich von etwas, was auf der Erde selber im Grunde genommen gar nicht ist. Der Ostländer richtet ganz und gar den Seelenblick auf das hin, was im Grunde genommen von der Erde gar nicht berührt wird. Würde man die Urzustände orientalischer Weltanschauung haben, so würde man ja alle Geburten, alles, was die Menschheitsentwickelung regelt, so haben, daß eigentlich auf dasjenige, was physisch-sinnliches Dasein ist, keineRücksicht genommen wäre. Der Mensch ist da ganz als geistig-seelisches Wesen und entwickelt auch keinen rechten Sinn für das physisch-sinnliche Dasein. Das hat einen bedeutsamen Einfluß auf alles, was der Orientale denken kann. Heute ist es in der Dekadenz; aber in alten Zeiten war ganz ausgesprochen vorhanden, was der Orientale denken kann in bezug auf den Menschen als soziales Wesen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-11/p018"}],"english":["GA 202/1920-12-11/p021"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":286,"en_words":246,"ratio":0.86,"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/p018"],"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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