{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 279/1924-06-24/p034","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But what is it that one is really investigating when one studies philosophy? When all is said and done one is really investigating man. Philosophy strives after self-knowledge, and this self-observation begins with the sound *a*. It is, however, at the same time a most profound mystery, for it requires great effort, great activity, to attain to such knowledge of the human being. When man approaches his own being and sees how it is formed out of body, soul and spirit, when he looks upon his own being in its entirety, then he is confronted by something before which he may say *a* with the deepest wonder. For this reason *a* corresponds to man in a state of wonder, to man filled with wonder at his own true being, that is to say, man looked at from the highest, most ideal aspect.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Eurythmy as Visible Speech","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-06-24","location":null,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/279/1924-06-24/p034","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Vera Compton-Burnett and Judith Compton-Burnett","identified_edition":"APC1956","book_title":"Eurythmy as Visible Speech","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA279/English/APC1956/19240624p02.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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So beginnt man Menschenerkenntnis, Menschen-anschauen mit dern a. Aber es ist zu gleicher Zeit das Verborgenste, denn man muß sich anstrengen, man muß viel tun, um solche Menschenerkennmis zu erlangen. Erst wenn man an den Menschen herankommt, wie er ganz aus dern Geistig-Seelisch-Leiblichen heraus gebildet ist, wenn man ihn in seiner ganzen Fülle hat, dann steht man eigentlich vor dem, wovor man als vor dern Menschen a im höchsten Erstaunen sagen kann. 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