{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 303/1922-01-05/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I will demonstrate by focusing on the significant word in the sentence. In English, the word is *freedom*. If we match the quality of this word with the corresponding German word, one would have to use *Freitum*—the ending “dom” in English corresponds to the ending “tum” in German. If such a word existed, we could use freedom with impunity. *Freitum* would then be translated as “freedom,” and there would be no misunderstanding. But the word used in the original text is *Freiheit*—the ending “heit” corresponds to the English ending “hood.” To show you that the translation of *Freiheit* as “freedom” does not harmonize with the genius of language, I will use another German word, *Irrtum* (“error”), which expresses a definite fact that happens only once. If we wanted to give this word the ending “heit,” we would have to form the word *Irreheit*. You won’t find this word in any German dictionary, but it would not go against the genius of the language to invent it. It would be quite possible to use it. *Irreheit* immediately leads us to the inner human being. It expresses a quality of inner human nature. There are no words in the German language ending with “heit” that do not point to something flexible within a person. Such words carry their meaning toward a person. Indeed, it is a pity that we do not use the word *Freitum* in German, because, if it existed, we could express the meaning of the English word *freedom* directly, without circumscribing it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. Aesthetic Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-05","location":null,"word_count":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/303/1922-01-05/p035","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"AP2003","book_title":"Soul Economy: Body, Soul and Spirit in Waldorf Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA303/English/AP2003/19220105d01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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