{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 224/1923-07-04/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the next chapter, Schweitzer discusses the elements in us that inhibit culture. He comes to some very interesting conclusions. He finds, for example, that man has become unfree as a result of what he has absorbed as culture in recent times. Well, one can sympathize with him on that point, because people have gradually come to really only follow certain bellwethers, to swear by the authority of science, and so on. But now Schweitzer claims that the human being is not collected in his thinking. I don't think we need discuss this much either; Schweitzer is probably right that the power to collect has really declined a lot in our civilization. But then he calls the human being incomplete. Now, people will say, if he already finds us unfree and so unsettled; that we are not even supposed to be whole people, we cannot concede that to him! But he means it this way: What a person learns today, that is a specialty, be he a scholar or be he somehow a different person, so that only certain sides of his abilities are developed, not the total human being. Therefore, we go around as incomplete, not at all as complete people. And then he finds, as a fourth, that humanity has decreased to the highest degree. He cites beautiful examples. But he is generally of the opinion that unfree, uncollected and incomplete people do not develop humanity in their ethical lives either. He also finds a culture-inhibiting element in over-organization, in the eradication of human individuality. How much does the individual still depend on today? It depends only on what is prescribed by any organization. Schweitzer rightly accuses our time of over-organization as a particular tendency.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Mauthner's “Critique of Language”","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-07-04","location":null,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/224/1923-07-04/p038","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230704p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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Da kommt er zu ganz interessanten Anschauungen. Er findet nämlich, daß der Mensch durch dasjenige, was er als Kultur in der neuesten Zeit aufgenommen hat, erstens unfrei geworden ist. Nun, das kann man ihm nachfühlen, denn die Menschen sind ja nach und nach dazu gekommen, wirklich nur gewissen Leithammeln nachzulaufen, auf die Autorität der Wissenschaft zu schwören und so weiter. Aber nun behauptet Schweitzer, daß der Mensch ungesammelt ist im Denken. Ich glaube, auch darüber brauchen wir nicht viel zu verhandeln; da wird Schweitzer wohl recht haben, daß die Kraft zum Sammeln in unserer Zivilisation wirklich sehr zurückgegangen ist. Dann aber nennt er den Menschen unvollständig. Nun, werden die Leute sagen, wenn er uns schon unfrei und uns so ungesammelt findet; daß wir nicht einmal ganze Menschen sein sollen, das können wir ihm doch nicht konzedieren! — Aber er meint das so: Das, was heute einer lernt, das ist eine Spezialität, sei er ein Gelehrter oder sei er irgendwie ein anderer Mensch, so daß immer nur gewisse Seiten seiner Fähigkeiten ausgebildet werden, nicht der Totalmensch. Daher gehen wir also als unvollständige, gar nicht als ganze Menschen herum. Und dann findet er als viertes, daß die Humanität im höchsten Grade abgenommen hat. Er führt da schöne Beispiele an. Er ist aber überhaupt der Ansicht, daß unfreie, ungesammelte und nicht ganze Menschen auch nicht die Humanität im ethischen Leben entfalten. Dann findet er noch ein kulturhemmendes Element in der Überorganisation, in der Ausrottung der menschlichen Individualität. Wieviel kommt denn heute noch auf den einzelnen an? Es kommt nur auf dasjenige an, was durch irgendwelche Organisationen vorgezeichnet ist. Überorganisation wirft Schweitzer mit Recht unserer Zeit als besondere Neigung vor.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":287,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/224/1923-07-04/p037"}],"english":["GA 224/1923-07-04/p038"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":287,"en_words":287,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7299,"original_word_count":7183,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA224/English/SOL2024/19230704p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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