{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 206/1921-07-23/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Of course, people talk about seeing, or about the eye, or about the sense of sight; but one who sees through these things knows that all the concepts that are used are somehow conjured from the sense of touch to the sense of sight. People work with things that are borrowed, smuggled in, from the sense of touch. People do not notice it, but in describing the sense of sight they make use of categories, of ideas, with which one grasps the sense of touch. What to-day is called sight in scientific circles is really only a somewhat complicated touching; and categories, concepts such as tasting or smelling, are sometimes brought in to help. We can see everywhere at work the way of grasping external phenomena which lies behind modern ideas. For modern anatomy and physiology have already discovered—or at any rate have a well-founded hypothesis—that modern thinking really has its roots in the sense of smell, in that thinking is bound up with the brain—thus not at all with the higher senses, but with a metamorphosis of the sense of smell. This characteristic attitude of ours in our grasp of the outer world is quite different from the relationship that Plato had. It is not a product of the higher senses, it is a product of the sense of smell, if I may put it so. I mean that to-day our perfection as man does not come from our having developed the higher senses, but from our having created for ourselves a modified, metamorphosed dog's muzzle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Upper and Lower Man: Spiritual Decline Since Aristotle","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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Auf dasjenige, was unseren heutigen Vorstellungen besonders zugrunde liegt, die Art und Weise, wie wir äußere Erscheinungen zusammenfassen, auf das können wir durchaus auch in demselben Sinne hindeuten; denn das ist heute schon ein Ergebnis der äußeren Anatomie und Physiologie, wenigstens eine gut begründete Hypothese, daß eigentlich unser heutiges Denken in einer Metamorphose des Geruchssinnes wurzelt, insofern das Denken gebunden ist an das Gehirn, also gar nicht an die höheren Sinne, sondern an eine Metamorphose des Geruchssinnes. Diese eigentümliche Art, wie wir uns im Begreifen zu der Außenwelt verhalten, die ganz verschieden ist von dem, wie sich etwa Plato zu der Außenwelt verhalten hat, das ist nicht etwa ein Ergebnis der höheren Sinne, das ist ein Ergebnis des Geruchssinnes, wenn ich mich etwas trivial ausdrücken darf. Ich möchte sagen, wir haben unsere Vollendung als Menschen heute nicht dadurch, daß wir die höheren Sinne ausgebildet haben, sondern eben dadurch, daß wir uns eine etwas umgestaltete, eine metamorphosierte, verfeinerte Hundeschnauze angeschafft haben. Die besondere Art, zur Außenwelt sich zu verhalten, ist eben eine ganz andere als diejenige, die einem spirituellen Zeitalter entspricht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":285,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-23/p025"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-23/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Nun, wenn das, was sich zunächst in alten Zeiten durch die höheren Sinne der Menschheit geoffenbart hat, als orientalische Kultur bezeichnet werden muß, so muß dasjenige, in dem wir drinnen leben und das ich eben charakterisiert habe, als das Wesentliche der okzidentalischen Kultur angesehen werden. 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