{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-21/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Spiritual science does not consider spiritual life out of some purely subjective need, simply because it is nice for people who have nothing else to do, and who, rather than making small talk about some other subject, prefer to chat about the fact that human beings consist of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and an I. Many people have such a superficial attitude. What is important in spiritual science is not to offer material for small talk. What spiritual science can contribute to our understanding of the spirit is, in fact, necessary to illuminate human life so that we can work with it as a practical reality, something we have forgotten how to do. The chaos we now find in Europe, the absurd events of the last five or six years, is the result of that forgetfulness. There is a direct connection between our collective denial of the real content of the world and the distress within our civilization. Those who believe we can keep our old attitudes make a serious error. We are working with the adults of the future, and we must think first and foremost about the future of humanity. It is particularly here, in the area of education, that we should first think about those forces that enable us to give something to the future generation that is more than what we received, and which has brought about the terrible conditions of our society. In this way we open our eyes beyond the somewhat confined realm of education, as wholesome as it may be, onto the entire development of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. Three Aspects of the Human Being","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-04-21","location":null,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-21/p038","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200421d01.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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Das möchte eben Geisteswissenschaft tun. Diese betrachtet das geistige Leben wirklich nicht bloß aus irgendeinem subjektiven Bedürfnis heraus, weil das was Schönes ist für manche Leute, die sonst nicht viel zu tun haben, die eventuell, statt daß sie ihre anderen Kaffeeklatsch-Inhalte suchen, einmal auch den Kaffeeklatsch-Inhalt suchen: der Mensch besteht aus physischem Leib, Ätherleib, astralischem Leib und Ich. Es ist dies ja vielfach der Gesinnung der Menschen nach bloß ein Kaffeeklatsch. Aber es handelt sich darum, daß das nicht im Sektiererischen des Kaffeeklatsches steckenbleiben darf, sondern daß dasjenige, was durch Geisteswissenschaft in der Erkenntnis des Geistes geleistet wird, in Wahrheit dazu berufen ist, in das menschliche Leben wiederum so hineinzuleuchten, daß wir dieses menschliche Leben seiner praktischen Wirklichkeit nach behandeln lernen, während wir verlernt haben, es seiner praktischen Wirklichkeit nach zu behandeln. Und das Ergebnis dieses Verlernens ist ja das Chaos von Europa, sind doch die absurden Ereignisse der letzten fünf bis sechs Jahre. Es ist ein Zusammenhang zwischen dem Verlernen des eigentlichen realen Inhaltes der Welt und zwischen der Not unserer Zivilisation. Diejenigen, die glauben, man könne bei der alten Gesinnung verbleiben, die irren sich gar sehr. Insbesondere da, wo man am meisten an die Zukunft der Menschheit zu denken hat, weil man es mit dem zukünftigen Menschen zu tun hat, auf dem Gebiete der Pädagogik, da sollte zuerst gedacht werden an die Kräfte, die es uns möglich machen, daß wir der zukünftigen Generation etwas anderes mitgeben, als was diese Generation bekommen hat, die jetzt diese furchtbaren Zustände unserer Zivilisation herbeigeführt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":367,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-21/p033"},{"locus":"GA 301/1920-04-21/p034","passage_number":34,"text":"Da eröffnet sich schon der Blick, ich möchte sagen, von dem eingeschlossenen, aber eigentlich für die Entwickelung der Menschheit heiligen Schulland hinaus in die ganze große Entwickelung der Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":29,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-21/p034"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-04-21/p037","GA 301/1920-04-21/p038"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":396,"en_words":401,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 301/1920-04-21/p033","GA 301/1920-04-21/p034"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.9,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5568,"original_word_count":6201,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200421d01.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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