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Indeed, there could be no science if there were not this necessity. If one phenomenon were not of necessity caused by another in natural continuity, everything would be arbitrary, and there could be no science. An effect could arise from a cause that one could not predict! We get science when we try to see *how* one thing proceeds from another, *that* one thing proceeds from another. But if this natural causality is universal, then moral freedom is impossible; there can be no such thing. 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The man who has little idea of how deeply such a thing can work into the human soul will not be able to enter into the feeling that this contradiction in life, which is absolutely real, can undermine the whole soul, and can lead to the view that life in its inmost nature is a misfortune. Confronted by the conflict between scientific certainty and the certitude of faith, it is only thoughtlessness and lack of sensitivity that prevent men from coming to such inner tragedy in their lives. 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It comes from the fact that civilised humanity has for centuries allowed itself to become entangled in certain abstractions, in intellectualism. The most this intellectualism can say is that natural necessity deludes us by strange methods with a feeling of freedom, but that there is no freedom. It exists only in our ideas. We are powerless in the face of necessity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/206/1921-07-24/p040","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-07-24","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p038","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p038"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":66,"en_words":75,"ratio":1.14,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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And now you see that the lectures I have been giving for weeks actually all lead up to the question: “Are we really powerless? Are we really so impotent in the face of this contradiction?” Remember how I said that we have in our lives not only an ascending development, but a declining one; that our intellectual life is not bound up with the forces of growth, but with the forces of death, the forces of decay; that in order to develop intelligence we need to die. You will remember how I showed here several weeks ago the significance of the fact that certain elements with specific affinities and valencies—carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulphur—combine to form protein. They do so not by ordinary chemical combination, but on the, contrary by becoming utterly chaotic. You will then see that all these studies are leading up to this—to make it clear to you that what I have told you is not just a theoretical contradiction, but an actual process in human nature. We are not here merely in order, through living, to sense this contradiction, but our inner life is a continual process of destruction of what develops as causality in outer nature. We men really dissolve natural causality within ourselves. What outside is physical process, chemical process, is developed within us in a reverse direction, towards the other side. Of course we shall see this clearly only if we take into consideration the upper and the lower man, if we grasp by means of the upper man what emerges from metabolism by way of contra-mechanisation, contra-physicalisation, contra-chemicalisation. If we try to grasp the contra-materialisation in the human being, then we do not have merely a logical, theoretical contradiction in ourselves, but we have the real process—we have the process of human development, of human becoming, as the thing in us that itself counteracts natural causality, and human life as consisting in a battle against it. And the expression of this struggle, which goes on all the while to dissolve the physical synthesis, the chemical synthesis, to analyse it again—the expression of this analytic life in us is summed up in the awareness: “I am free.” What I have just put before you in a few words—the study of the human process of becoming as a process of combat against natural causality, as a reversal of natural causality—we shall make the subject of forthcoming lectures.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":410,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/206/1921-07-24/p041","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1921-07-24","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p039","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p039"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p040","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p040"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":431,"en_words":410,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Zwischen beiden besteht für die heutige Anschauung, wenn man ehrlich auf beiden Gebieten ist, eben keine Brücke. Und ich habe gestern darauf aufmerksam gemacht, daß, weil eine solche Brücke nicht besteht, die Leute ja sogar unterscheiden zwischen dem sogenannten echten Wissen, das sich auf die Naturkausalität bezieht, und dem bloßen Glaubensinhalt, der sich auf die moralische Welt beziehen soll, weil unzusammenhängend nebeneinanderstehen auf der einen Seite die Naturkausalität, auf der andern Seite das seelisch-geistige Leben. Aber es handelt sich durchaus darum, daß wir, um zu einem vollen Menschenbewußtsein wiederum zu kommen, dieses Brückenschlagen zwischen dem einen und dem andern brauchen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p033"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Da ist vor allen Dingen notwendig zu berücksichtigen, daß die moralische Welt ohne die Statuierung der Freiheit nicht bestehen kann, die natürliche Welt nicht bestehen kann ohne die Notwendigkeit, nach welcher das eine aus dem andern hervorgeht. Es könnte im Grunde gar keine Wissenschaft geben, wenn es diese Notwendigkeit nicht geben würde. Würde nicht notwendig eine Erscheinung aus der andern hervorgehen im Naturzusammenhang, würde da alles willkürlich sein, so könnte es ja keine Wissenschaft geben. Es könnte nun ja alles dasjenige, was man eben nicht wissen kann, aus dem andern hervorgehen, nicht wahr! Also es ist klar: Wissenschaft ist zunächst da, wenn man in ihr nur sehen will, wie eines aus dem andern hervorgeht, daß eines aus dem andern hervorgeht. Aber wenn diese Naturkausalität ganz allgemein ist, dann ist eine moralische Freiheit unmöglich, dann kann sie nicht da sein. Aber das Bewußtsein dieser moralischen Freiheit innerhalb des Seelisch-Geistigen, das ist als eine unmittelbar erfahrbare Tatsache in jedem Menschen vorhanden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p034"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p035","passage_number":35,"text":"Der Widerspruch zwischen dem, was der Mensch erlebt in seiner moralischen Seelenkonstitution und in der Naturkausalität, ist nicht ein logischer, sondern ein Lebenswiderspruch. Wir gehen fortwährend mit diesem Widerspruch durch die Welt. Er gehört zum Leben. Es ist in der Tat so, daß, wenn wir uns ehrlich gestehen, was da vorliegt, wir uns sagen müssen: Naturkausalität, Notwendigkeit, sie muß es geben, und wir gehen selber als Menschen durch diese Notwendigkeit. Aber unser inneres, seelisch-geistiges Leben widerspricht dem. Wir sind uns bewußt: Wir können Entschlüsse fassen, wir können moralischen Idealen folgen, die uns nicht innerhalb der Naturkausalität gegeben sind. Es ist dieses ein Widerspruch, der ein Lebenswiderspruch ist. Und derjenige, der nicht zugeben kann, daß solche Widersprüche im Leben drinnenstehen, der faßt einfach das Leben nicht in seiner Allseitigkeit. Aber wenn wir das so ausdrücken, ist es recht abstrakt. Es ist eigentlich im Grunde genommen stets nur eine Art von Auffassung, die wir dem Leben entgegenbringen. Wir gehen durch das Leben und fühlen uns eigentlich fortwährend mit der äußeren Natur im Widerspruch. Es scheint, als ob wir machtlos wären, als ob wir uns eben im Widerspruch fühlen müßten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p035"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p036","passage_number":36,"text":"Man kann diese Widersprüche zum Beispiel heute bei manchen Menschen gerade in einer recht tragischen Weise erleben. Ich habe zum Beispiel einen Menschen gekannt, der tatsächlich ganz erfüllt war davon, daß es eine Notwendigkeit in der Welt gibt, der auch der Mensch eingegliedert ist. Man kann natürlich theoretisch eine solche Notwendigkeit zugeben und sich mit seinem ganzen Menschen nicht viel darum kümmern; dann geht man eben als Trivialling durch die Welt und wird nicht von einer inneren Tragik erfüllt. Aber wie gesagt, ich kannte immerhin einen Menschen, der sagte: Es ist ja überall Notwendigkeit, und wir Menschen sind hineingestellt in diese Notwendigkeit. Es ist nicht anders, denn die Wissenschaft zwingt uns zur Anerkennung dieser Notwendigkeit. Aber diese Notwendigkeit läßt zu gleicher Zeit Blasen in uns aufsteigen, Blasen, die Schaum sind und die uns vorgaukeln ein freies Seelenleben. Das müssen wir durchschauen, als Blasen ansehen. Das ist auch eine Notwendigkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":149,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p036"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p037","passage_number":37,"text":"Das ist die furchtbare Illusion des Menschen. Das ist die Begründung des Pessimismus in der menschlichen Natur. Wer wenig Idee davon hat, wie tief so etwas in der Seele eines Menschen wirken kann, der wird nicht nachfühlen können, wie hier der durchaus reale Lebenswiderspruch die ganze menschliche Seele durchwühlen kann und selbst zu der Anschauung führen kann, daß zu leben durch seine eigene Wesenheit ein Unglück ist. Es ist nur die Gedankenlosigkeit und die Empfindungslosigkeit gegenüber demjenigen, was uns heute auf der einen Seite wissenschaftliche Gewißheit und auf der andern Seite Glaubensgewißheit geben wollen, die die Menschen nicht kommen lassen zu solcher inneren Lebenstragik. Denn eigentlich wäre gegenüber der heutigen möglichen Seelenverfassung der Menschheit diese Lebenstragik die gegebene Seelenverfassung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p037"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p038","passage_number":38,"text":"Aber woher rührt denn das Unvermögen, das zu solcher Lebenstragik führt? Es rührt daher, daß wir uns seit Jahrhunderten eben eingesponnen haben als zivilisierte Menschheit in gewisse Abstraktionen, in einen Intellektualismus. Dieser Intellektualismus kann sich höchstens sagen: Es gaukelt uns die Naturnotwendigkeit durch merkwürdige Richtungen ein Freiheitsgefühl vor. Das ist aber nicht vorhanden. Es ist nur in unseren Ideen vorhanden. Wir sind ohnmächtig gegenüber der Naturnotwendigkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":66,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p038"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Die große Frage entsteht: Sind wir das nun wirklich? - Und nun merken Sie, wie die Vorträge, die ich nun seit Wochen hier gehalten habe, eigentlich alle auf die Frage hintendieren: Sind wir es in Wirklichkeit? Sind wir in Wirklichkeit so ohnmächtig mit diesem Widerspruch? - Erinnern Sie sich, wie ich gesagt habe, daß wir im menschlichen Leben nicht nur eine aufsteigende, sondern auch eine absteigende Entwickelung haben, daß unser intellektuelles Leben nicht gebunden ist an die Wachstums-, sondern an die Absterbekräfte, an die absterbende Entwickelung, daß wir das Sterben brauchen, gerade um die Intelligenz zu entwickeln. Erinnern Sie sich daran, wie ich vor einigen Wochen hier gezeigt habe, was es für eine Bedeutung hat, daß mit bestimmten Affinitäten und Wertigkeitskräften in der Welt bestehende Elemente, meinetwillen Kohlenstoff, Sauerstoff, Wasserstoff, Stickstoff, Schwefel sich verbinden zu dem Eiweißstoff; wie ich Ihnen gezeigt habe, worauf dieses Verbinden beruht, wie es gerade nicht auf dem Chemisieren, sondern auf dem Chaotischwerden beruht, und Sie werden sehen, alle diese Betrachtungen tendieren dahin, das, was ich angedeutet habe, nicht nur als einen theoretischen Widerspruch aufzudecken, sondern als einen Prozeß in der menschlichen Natur. Wir sind nicht nur, indem wir als Menschen leben, dazu da, einen solchen Widerspruch zu empfinden, sondern unser inneres Leben ist ein fortwährender Zerstörungsprozeß desjenigen, was außen in der Natur als Naturkausalität sich entwickelt. Wir lösen in uns Menschen die Naturkausalität in Wirklichkeit auf. Dasjenige, was außen die physikalischen Vorgänge, die chemischen Vorgänge vorstellen, in uns wird es rückgängig entwickelt, wird es nach der andern Seite entwickelt. Natürlich wird uns das nur dann klar, wenn wir den unteren und den oberen Menschen ins Auge fassen, wenn wir dasjenige, was im unteren Menschen vom Stoffwechsel heraufkommt, in seiner Entmechanisierung, Entphysizierung, Entchemisierung durch den oberen Menschen ins Auge fassen. Wenn wir die Entstofflichung im Menschen ins Auge zu fassen suchen, dann haben wir nicht nur einen logischen, theoretischen Widerspruch in uns, sondern wir haben den realen Prozeß: wir haben den Menschenwerde- und Menschenentwickelungsprozeß als denjenigen in uns, der selber kämpft gegen die Naturkausalität, und das Menschenleben als ein solches, welches darinnen besteht, daß es ein Kampf ist gegen die Naturkausalität. Und der Ausdruck dieses Kampfes, der Ausdruck desjenigen, was in uns fortwährend die physische Synthese, die chemische Synthese löst, wiederum analysiert, der Ausdruck des analytischen Lebens in uns faßt sich zusammen in der Empfindung: Ich bin frei.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":392,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p039"},{"locus":"GA 206/1921-07-24/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Dasjenige, was ich Ihnen jetzt in ein paar Worten hingestellt habe, also die Betrachtung des Menschen in seinem Werdeprozesse als einem Kampfprozesse gegen die Naturkausalität, als eine umgekehrte Naturkausalität, das wollen wir in den nächsten Vorträgen nun hier betrachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":39,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/206/1921-07-24/p040"}],"beads":[{"from":[35],"to":[33],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[36],"to":[34],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[37],"to":[35],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[38],"to":[36],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[39],"to":[37],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[40],"to":[38],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[41],"to":[39,40],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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