{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 272/1916-09-11/p056","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And the other thing that works against progressive principles in our time, apart from the absurd principle of nationality, is the politicization of intellectual life. It is important to understand these two things, to understand the politicization of the life of thought. I have already drawn attention to the meaning of “policy” in another context, where people are constantly talking about policy, about staging certain thoughts in order to achieve this or that. But how widespread this is in the world! In our fifth post-Atlantic period, the worst is emerging from this politicization of the life of thought. A time that could still believe in a certain way when it formed thoughts, could be inspired at its councils, and could decide on this or that dogma, which was then used to achieve this or that in the world. But our time, which is truly uninspired in its materialistic structure, will, if it does not tie the thought in such a way that it is tied in responsibility to the impersonal truth, grasp the thought only out of personal-arbitrary or out of association-arbitrary or otherwise somehow common-arbitrary aspiration. And so the thought is not put into the world because one sees its correctness, but because one wants to politicize with it. This politicization of the thought life goes on and on. And one does not educate oneself in such a way that one comes to the right, to the true thought, but one educates oneself in such a way that one comes to a thought with which one can politicize, for example with the thought of not vivisecting animals. But one does not grasp the thought in its truth, but by its political power of agitation. One agitates with the thought, one politicizes with the thought in temperance associations, in anti-vivisection associations. One does not grasp a thought in its reality – temperance, vivisection or the like – but one politicizes in relation to it. Thought is politicized everywhere. They are absorbed into the political machinery. The false principle of nationality, the false politicization of thoughts, as it lives especially in our present-day clubbiness, is what is contrary to the currently progressive correct evolutions of humanity. Associations are founded, not to represent the truth, but to achieve this or that. As a result, even the right idea can be fanatized, made one-sided, while the fifth post-Atlantic period has in its fundamental character the task of working through the truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"15. Goethe's Search for the Depths of Becoming and the Mysteries of the World in His “Faust” The Luciferic and the Ahrimanic Temptation","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-09-11","location":null,"word_count":408,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/272/1916-09-11/p056","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Faust, the Striving Human Being","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA272/English/SOL2024/19160911p01.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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