12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p011
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Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach zum Teil bruchstückhaften Mitschriften» (From transcripts that are in part fragmentary). The publisher's description of the volume, as mirrored on AnthroWiki (GA 246), which also speaks of "fragmentarischen Hörernotizen und Vortragszusammenfassungen". The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.
What is considered orthodox Catholic philosophy today should not affect us; but neither should we be deterred by the accusation that we are cultivating the same thing that is driven and commanded from the dogmatic side. Rather, regardless of everything that can be asserted from the right and the left, we want to characterize the sentiments of the heyday of scholasticism with regard to science, the technique of thought and supernatural revelation.
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