{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We can often learn much from language itself. Ancient peoples, who still had a kind of primal, instinctive knowledge, did not always consider things as abstractly as we do. Take, for instance, *hypochondria*, which in Greek means “below the cartilage of the breast bone,” an anomaly of the soul that has its origins in the human abdomen, which is indicated in the word itself. In the English language, which in comparison to the languages of Central Europe is still at an early stage of development, the word *spleen*, as an emotional state, has something to do with the soul. However, spleen also refers to an organ, and for good reason, since the *spleen* of the soul has much to do with the *spleen* organ. Such things are nearly all lost. Materialism has nearly lost an understanding of the physical organs, particularly those of the human being. How can we work with a human being if we are not in a position to understand what the human being is physically? We must first understand that the human being is built up piece by piece out of the spirit-soul, so that there is nothing physical that is not a revelation of the spirit-soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Understanding the Human Being: A Foundation for Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-04-22","location":null,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-22/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","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/AP2001/19200422d01.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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So daß wir auf der einen Seite durch Geisteswissenschaft trachten, die menschliche Leber nicht nur als Leber zu betrachten, die menschliche Milz nicht nur als Milz zu betrachten, so wie sie uns erscheinen wenn wir in der Klinik den Leichnam sezieren, sondern daß wir versuchen die Frage zu beantworten: Was haben diese Organe im geistig-seelischen Leben für eine Bedeutung? Wir werden doch nicht das Auge bloß ansehen als ein bloßes physisches Werkzeug; ebensowenig aber sollen wir die anderen Organe ansehen als bloße physische Werkzeuge. Und während wir glauben, daß die Leber nur ein Verdauungsorgan ist, hat sie sehr, sehr viel zu tun gerade mit dem geistigen Leben des Menschen. — Ich werde Ihnen dies im einzelnen noch schildern, möchte Ihnen heute nur den methodischen Gang der Betrachtungen andeuten und etwas von der Richtung, in welcher dieser methodische Gang geht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-22/p022"},{"locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Die Sprache hat manchmal solche Dinge noch erhalten: Sehen Sie, die Alten, die noch ein Urwissen gehabt haben, ein instinktives Urwissen, die haben nicht immer so abstrakt die Dinge betrachtet wie wir. »Hypochondrie«, Unterleibsknorpeligkeit — daß eine scheinbar bloß seelische Anomalie im menschlichen Unterleibe ihre Ursache hat, das ist in diesem Namen angedeutet. Und die englische Sprache, die gegenüber den mitteleuropäischen Sprachen noch auf einer etwas früheren Stufe steht, sehen Sie einmal nach, hat etwas als »Spleen« bezeichnet: Sie wissen, wenn man von Spleen spricht, versteht man darunter etwas Seelisches. Aber »Spleen« ist auch die Milz, und das hat seine guten physiologischen Gründe; denn mit dem seelischen Spleen hat die Milz sehr viel zu tun. Wir werden darüber noch im einzelnen sprechen. Diese Dinge sind fast ganz verlorengegangen. Gerade dem Materialismus ist die Kenntnis der materiellen Organe, namentlich derjenigen des Menschen, verlorengegangen. Wie soll man denn überhaupt den Menschen behandeln, wenn man nicht in der Lage ist, einzusehen, was er physisch ist, indem er sich ja Stück für Stück aus dem Geistig-Seelischen heraus aufbaut, so daß nichts physisch ist, was nicht eine Offenbarung des Geistig-Seelischen ist!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":186,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-22/p023"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-04-22/p023","GA 301/1920-04-22/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":414,"en_words":379,"ratio":0.92,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.89,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5026,"original_word_count":5630,"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/AP2001/19200422d01.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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