{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1908-08-17/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"On the other hand, something else developed. Those who wanted to protect faith, so to speak, from the intrusion of thinking that was now focused on itself, developed an aversion, a dislike of the technique of thinking. They were of the opinion that this thinking technique was powerless in the face of the revealed wisdom. If the secular empiricists referred to Aristotle's book, the others referred to something they had taken - admittedly in a misleading way - from another book, the Bible. We see this expressed most strongly at the beginning of the modern era when we hear Luther's harsh words: “Reason is the stone-blind, deaf fool”, which should have nothing to do with spiritual truths; and when he further asserts that the pure conviction of faith can never dawn in the right way through rational thinking, which is based on Aristotle. He calls him “a hypocrite, a sycophant, a stinking goat”. As I said, these are harsh words, but from the standpoint of the new age they seem understandable to us; a deep gulf had just opened up between reason and its thinking technique on the one hand and supersensible truth on the other.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"12. 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Sie waren der Meinung, dass diese Denktechnik ohnmächtig sei gegenüber dem geoffenbarten Weisheitsgut. Wenn die weltlichen Empiriker sich auf das Buch des Aristoteles beriefen, so beriefen sich die andern auf etwas, was sie - freilich in missverständlicher Weise - einem andern Buche, der Bibel, entnommen hatten. Das sehen wir am stärksten im Beginn der Neuzeit zum Ausdruck gebracht, wenn wir die harten Worte Luthers hören: «Die Vernunft ist die stockblinde, taube Närrin», die nichts zu schaffen haben soll mit den spirituellen Wahrheiten; und wenn er weiter behauptet, dass die reine Glaubensüberzeugung niemals in richtiger Weise aufdämmern kann durch das vernünftige Denken, das sich auf Aristoteles stützt. Diesen nennt er «einen Heuchler, einen Sykophanten, einen stinkenden Bock». Das sind, wie gesagt, harte Worte, aber vom Standpunkte der neuen Zeit erscheinen sie uns begreiflich; es hatte sich eben eine tiefe Kluft aufgetan zwischen der Vernunft und ihrer Denktechnik einerseits und der übersinnlichen Wahrheit anderseits.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":189,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/246/1908-08-17/p022"}],"english":["GA 246/1908-08-17/p022"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":189,"en_words":196,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7990,"original_word_count":7843,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19080817s01.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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