12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p032
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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.
However, anyone who really studies Aristotle would find that in a straightforward, i.e. in a sense unbent development from Aristotle, something quite different could have emerged as a principle and theory of knowledge. Aristotle already recognized things in the field of epistemology that people today will only be able to slowly and gradually rise to through all the academic undergrowth that has arisen under the influence of Kant. Above all, he must learn to understand that Aristotle already had the possibility, through the technique of thought, of bringing about concepts that are correctly conceived and that lead directly to transcending these human boundaries that we have drawn ourselves here [and lead us beyond the realm of the empirical].
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