{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 3/l08/p008","lang":"en","edition":"MP1993","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Knowledge of this lawfulness with reference to human action is only one particular case of knowing activity. The views at which we have arrived about the nature of knowledge must also be applicable here. To know oneself as an acting personality means therefore: *knowingly* to possess, for one's actions, the corresponding laws, i.e., the moral concepts and ideals. If we have once known this lawfulness, then our actions are also *our* creation. The lawfulness is then not given as something that lies outside the object in which the occurrence manifests, but rather as the content of the object itself that is engaged in living activity. The object in this case is our own “I.” If, in knowing, the “I” has really penetrated the essential being of its actions, it then feels itself at the same time to be the master of its actions. As long as this does not occur, the laws of the actions confront us as something foreign — *they* rule *us*; what we accomplish stands under the compulsion they exert on us. If, from being foreign entities of this sort, they are transformed into the innate activity of our “I,” then this compulsion ceases. That which compels has become our own being. The lawfulness no longer rules *over* us; it rules *within* us over the occurrence that issues from our “I.” To cause something to occur by virtue of a lawfulness lying outside the doer is an act of inner unfreedom; to do so out of the doer himself is an act of inner freedom *(Freiheit). To know the laws of one's actions means to be conscious of one's inner freedom.* The process of knowledge, according to our argument, is the process of developing toward inner freedom.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. Final Practical Reflections","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":290,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/3/l08/p008?edition=MP1993","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:structural_identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1993","RSPI1963","SOL2024"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/3/l08/p008"},{"lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1963","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/3/l08/p008","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1993","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/3/l08/p008?edition=MP1993","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l08","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 3/l08/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/3/l08/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","length_check":{"de_words":243,"en_words":290,"ratio":1.19,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.15,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":661,"original_word_count":575,"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. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 3/l08/p008"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}