{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-05-05/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When working with synthesis, our concern is just the opposite: we simply add three, five, and two. As I said, in an objective, abstract, and isolated sense, everyone knows what analysis and synthesis are. But when we want to comprehend the life of the human soul, we find that the soul is continuously impelled to form syntheses. For example, we look at an individual animal out of a group of animals and we form a general concept, that of the species. In that case, we summarize, that is, we synthesize. Analysis is something that lies much deeper, almost in the unconscious. This is a desire to make multiplicity out of unity. Since this has been little taken into account, people have understood little of what human freedom represents in the soul. If the activity of the human soul were solely synthetic—that is, if human beings were connected with the external world in such a way that they could onlysynthesize, they could only form concepts of species and so forth—we could hardly speak of human freedom. Everything would be determined by external nature.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"X. 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Das Analysieren, das liegt, ich möchte sagen, viel tiefer. Es liegt fast im Unbewußten der menschlichen Seelentätigkeit. Es ist immer ein Trieb vorhanden in der Seele, aus einer Einheit in eine Geteiltheit überzugehen. Gerade weil man das so wenig berücksichtigt, hat man auch so wenig begriffen von dem, was eigentlich die menschliche Freiheit in der Seele darstellt. Wenn die menschliche Seelentätigkeit ausschließlich eine synthetische wäre, oder besser gesagt, wenn der Mensch mit der Außenwelt so im Zusammenhang stünde, daß er nur synthetisieren, Artbegriffe, Gattungsbegriffe bilden könnte und auch das Leben so einrichten würde, daß er es möglichst nach Begriffen einzuteilen trachten würde, was ja eine Haupttätigkeit des Menschen ist, dann könnte der Mensch eigentlich kaum von Freiheit sprechen. 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