{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 28/l03/p041","lang":"en","edition":"APC1928","edition_basis":"Marie Steiner edition (posthumous)","is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I was deeply stirred by the reading of Schiller's letters concerning the aesthetic education of man. His statement that human consciousness oscillates, as it were, back and forth between different states, afforded me a connection with the notion that I had formed of the inner working and weaving of the human soul. Schiller distinguished two states of consciousness in which man evolves his relationship to the world. When he surrenders himself to that which affects him through the senses, he lives under the compulsion of nature. The sensations and impulses determine his life. If he subjects himself to the logical laws and principles of reason then he is living under a rational compulsion. But he can evolve an intermediate state of consciousness. He can develop the “aesthetic mood,” which is not given over either on the one side to the compulsion of nature, or on the other to the necessities of the reason. In this aesthetic mood the soul lives through the senses; but into the sense-perception and into the action set on foot by sense-stimuli the soul brings over something spiritual. One perceives through the senses, but as if the spiritual had streamed over into the senses. In action one surrenders oneself to the gratification of the present desire; but one has so ennobled this desire that to him the good is pleasing and the evil displeasing. Reason has then entered into union with the sensible. The good becomes an instinct; instinct can safely direct itself, for it has taken on the character of the spiritual. Schiller sees in this state of consciousness that condition of the soul in which man can experience and produce works of beauty. In the evolution of this state he sees the coming to life in men of the true human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Chapter III","site_heading":"Philosophical Formation and Spiritual Knowledge Development","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Aber er kann einen *mittleren* Bewußtseinszustand in sich entwickeln. Er kann die «ästhetische Stimmung» ausbilden, die weder einseitig an die Naturnötigung, noch an die Vernunftnotwendigkeit hingegeben ist. In dieser ästhetischen Stimmung lebt die Seele durch die Sinne; aber sie trägt in die sinnliche Anschauung und in das von der Sinnlichkeit angeregte Handeln ein Geistiges hinein. Man nimmt mit den Sinnen wahr, aber so, als ob das Geistige in die Sinne eingeströmt wäre. Man überläßt sich im Handeln dem Wohlgefallen des unmittelbaren Begehrens, aber man hat dieses Begehren so veredelt, daß ihm das Gute gefällt, das Schlechte mißfällt Die Vernunft ist da eine innige Verbindung mit der Sinnlichkeit eingegangen. Das Gute wird zum Instinkt; der Instinkt darf sich selbst die Richtung geben, weil er in sich den Charakter der Geistigkeit angenommen hat. Schiller sieht in diesem Bewußtseinszustand diejenige Seelenverfassung, durch die der Mensch die Werke der Schönheit erleben und hervorbringen kann. In der Entwickelung dieses Zustandes findet er das Aufleben des wahren Menschenwesens im Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/28/l03/p043"}],"english":["GA 28/l03/p041"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":269,"en_words":298,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.16,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5912,"original_word_count":5118,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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