12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p020
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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.
And it was only natural that, once this abyss had opened up, knowledge and belief were pushed further and further apart. And it was also natural that Aristotle and his thinking technique were drawn into this rift that had opened up through historical development. In particular, he was drawn into it at the beginning of the modern era. The scientists said - and we can regard much of what they said as well-founded: You can't make any progress in empirical truth research by merely continuing what Aristotle had already said. Moreover, the historical development was such that it became unfortunate to have an association with the Aristotelians; indeed, when the time of Kepler and [Galileo] came along, misunderstood Aristotelianism had become a real scourge.
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