12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p030
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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 that which had been in the pipeline for a long time then became ingrained in the philosophical thinking of our time, so to speak, so that people became incapable of understanding anything else, or even of thinking that it could be different. Eduard von Hartmann, for example, was completely incapable of finding his way out of his conceptual convolutions. For example, in a conversation I once had the opportunity to have with him, it was quite impossible to get beyond the fact that he said: "Yes, we must start from the mental image, and if we define the mental image, then we must say that it is that through which man brings a non-imagined thing to perception! But if the mental image, from which we start, is something subjective, then we can't get beyond the subjective either.
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