{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 3/pref/p002","lang":"en","edition":"SOL2024","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Our discussion therefore seeks to show that everything necessary to explain and account for the world is within the reach of our thinking. The adoption of principles lying outside of our world shows merely the prejudiced preconception of a dead philosophy living in ingeniously contrived dogmatic illusions. Kant himself would have come to this conclusion had he really investigated the powers inherent in our thinking. Instead of this, he shows in the most complicated way that we cannot reach the ultimate principles existing beyond our direct experience, because of the way our knowing faculties are set up. There is, however, no reason for transferring these principles into another world. Kant did indeed refute “dogmatic” philosophy, but he put nothing in its place. This is why Kant was opposed by the German philosophers who followed. Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel did not worry in the least about the limits to knowing erected by Kant, but sought the ultimate principles within the world accessible to human common sense and reason ( *Vernunft*). Though he maintained as eternal and irrefutable the truths Kant concluded in his critique of sense and reason, even Schopenhauer found himself compelled to search for primal world causes along paths very different from those of his master. The mistake of these thinkers was in seeking an inner familiarity with the highest truths without having first laid a groundwork by investigating the nature of knowing itself. Therefore, the proud thought-structures of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel stand without a foundation, the lack of which had a damaging effect on their thought-process. Without familiarity with how the pure world of ideas is connected to the realm of sensory perception, they built error on error, bias upon bias. It is no wonder that their all too daring systems could not withstand the fierce opposition of an epoch so ill-disposed toward philosophy, so that much of good quality was swept away with the pitiful bad.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Preface","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/3/pref/p002?edition=SOL2024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1993","RSPI1963","SOL2024"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"RSPI1963","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/3/pref/p002","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/pref/p002?edition=MP1993","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"en","edition":"SOL2024","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/3/pref/p002?edition=SOL2024","paragraph_aligned":true},{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"locus":"GA 3/preface/p002","anchor_mapped":true,"anchor_method":"vocab","anchor_confidence":"high","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/3/preface/p002"}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"preface","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 3/preface/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/3/preface/p003"}],"bead_confidence":"high","length_check":{"de_words":293,"en_words":320,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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