12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p050
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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.
This is the epistemological foundation for the proposition that even in pure thinking a point can be reached where reality and subjectivity are in complete contact, where the human being experiences reality. - If he starts there and fertilizes his thinking in such a way that his thinking in turn emerges from there, then he grasps things from within. There is therefore something present in the I, which is grasped through a pure act of thinking and thus created at the same time, through which we penetrate the boundary that must be set for everything else between entelechy (form) and matter.
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