12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p014
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English
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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.
The scholastic thus declares the technique of thought suitable for rationally processing what is gained in empirical science, in sensory observation, and also for penetrating a little way up to spiritual truth. And then the scholastic modestly presents a piece of wisdom as revelation, which he cannot find himself, which he only has to accept.
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