12. Philosophy and Theosophy

GA 246/1908-08-17/p012 ·1908-08-17 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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.

Early scholasticism is not what one would usually characterize it as today with a catchphrase; on the contrary, it is monism, a doctrine of unity - it is not even remotely dualistic in nature. The primordial ground of the world is for it a thoroughly unified one; only the scholastic has a certain feeling with regard to the perception of this primordial ground. He says: "There is a certain supersensible truth, a wisdom, which was first revealed to mankind; human thought with all its technique is not so far advanced as to penetrate from itself into the regions whose essence [is] the content of the highest revealed wisdom. Therefore, for the early scholastics there is a certain wisdom that is initially inaccessible to the technique of thinking [although this does reach as far as the limits of those revelations]. - It is only accessible insofar as thought is able to clarify what has been revealed.

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