{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-09-27/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The theme of this cycle of lectures was not chosen because it is traditional within academic or philosophical disciplines, as though we thought epistemology or the like should appear within our courses. Rather, it was chosen as the result of what I believe to be an open-minded consideration of the needs and demands of our time. The further evolution of humanity demands new concepts, new notions, and new impulses for social life generally: we need ideas which, when realized, can create social conditions offering to human beings of all stations and classes an existence that seems to them humane. Already, to be sure, it is being said in the widest circles that social renewal must begin with a renewal of our thinking.[^1] Yet not everyone in these widest circles imagines something clear and distinct when speaking in this way. One does not ask: whence shall come the ideas upon which one might found a social economy offering man a humane existence? That portion of humanity which has received an education in the last three to four centuries, but particularly since the nineteenth century, has been raised with certain ideas that are outgrowths of the scientific world view or entirely schooled in it. This is particularly true of those who have undergone some academic training. Only those working in fields other than the sciences believe that natural science has had little influence on their pursuits. Yet it is easy to demonstrate that even in the newer, more progressive theology, in history and in jurisprudence—everywhere can be found scientific concepts such as those that arose from the scientific experiments of the last centuries, so that traditional concepts have in a certain way been altered to conform to the new. One need only allow the progress of the new theological developments in the nineteenth century to pass before the mind's eye. One sees, for example, how Protestant theology has arrived at its views concerning the man, Jesus, and the nature of Christ, because at every turn it had in mind certain scientific conceptions that it wanted to satisfy, against which it did not want to sin. At the same time, the old, instinctive ties within the social order began to slacken: they gradually ceased to hold human life together. In the course of the nineteenth century it became increasingly necessary to replace the instincts according to which one class subordinated itself to another, the instincts out of which the new parliamentary institutions, with all their consequences, have come with more-or-less conscious concepts. Not only in Marxism but in many other movements as well there has come about what one might call a transformation of the old social instincts into conscious concepts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Consciousness, Matter, and the Crisis of Modern Thought","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Wir sprechen ja heute auch schon in weitesten Kreisen davon, daß die soziale Erneuerung vom Geiste ausgehen müsse. Aber man stellt sich in diesen weitesten Kreisen nicht überall etwas Klares und Deutliches vor, wenn man so spricht. Man frägt sich nicht: Woher sollen die Vorstellungen, die Ideen kommen, durch die man eine Sozialökonomie begründen wollte, die dem Menschen ein menschenwürdiges Dasein bietet? Die Menschheit in ihrem gebildeten Teile ist ja seit den letzten drei bis vier Jahrhunderten, insbesondere aber seit dem 19. Jahrhundert in Vorstellungen, in Ideen erzogen — insbesondere ist das diejenige Menschheit, die durch das akademische Studium gegangen ist —, die eigentlich durchaus herangebildet, herangereift sind an der neueren naturwissenschaftlichen Betrachtungsweise. Man glaubt nur in den Kreisen, in denen man anderes treibt als Naturwissenschaft, daß die Naturwissenschaft auf dieses Treiben wenig Einfluß habe. Allein es ist leicht nachzuweisen, daß selbst zum Beispiel in der neueren, fortgeschritteneren Theologie, in der Historie, in der Jurisprudenz überall naturwissenschaftliche Begriffe, das heißt solche Begriffe, wie sie in den naturwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen der letzten Jahrhunderte heranerzogen wurden, hineingekommen sind, daß die althergebrachten Begriffe nach diesen neuen in einer gewissen Weise umgeformt worden sind. Und man braucht ja zum Beispiel nur den Gang der neuen theologischen Entwickelung im 19. Jahrhundert vor seinem geistigen Auge vorübergehen zu lassen, so wird man sehen, wie zum Beispiel die evangelische Theologie durchaus zu ihren Anschauungen über die Persönlichkeit Jesu, über das Wesen des Christus dadurch gekommen ist, daß sie gewissermaßen überall im Hintergrunde hatte die naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffe, von denen sie sich kritisiert fühlte, die naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffe, denen sie genügen wollte, an denen sie sich nicht versündigen wollte. Und dann kam das andere: Die alten, instinktiven Zusammenhänge des sozialen Lebens, sie verloren allmählich ihre Spannkraft im Menschendasein. Es wurde immer mehr und mehr notwendig im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts, an die Stelle jener Instinkte, durch die eine Klasse sich den Anordnungen der andern gefügt hat, an die Stelle der Instinkte, aus denen auch die neueren parlamentarischen Einrichtungen mit ihren Ergebnissen hervorgegangen sind, an die Stelle dieser Instinkte mehr oder weniger bewußte Begriffe zu setzen. Es bildete sich nicht nur in der Strömung des Marxismus, sondern auch in vielen andern Strömungen das aus, was man nennen könnte Umwandelung der alten sozialen Instinkte in bewußte Begriffe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":458,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-09-27/p003"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-09-27/p003"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":458,"en_words":448,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4353,"original_word_count":4129,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Frederick Amrine and Konrad Oberhuber","identified_edition":"AP1983","book_title":"The Boundaries of Natural Science","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA322/English/AP1983/19200927p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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