{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-09-27/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It was this that du Bois-Reymond felt very clearly but was able to express only much less clearly—only as a kind of vague feeling about scientific research on the whole—when in August 1872 he spoke his *ignorabimus*. What this *ignorabimus* wants to say in essence is that on the one hand, we have in the historical evolution of humanity arrived at clarity regarding nature and have constructed the concept of matter. In this view of nature we have lost man—that is, ourselves. On the other hand we look down into consciousness. To this realm we want to apply that which has been most important in arriving at the contemporary explanation of nature. Consciousness rejects this lucidity. This mathematical clarity is entirely out of place. 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Das Bewußtsein stößt diese Klarheit wieder aus. Diese mathematische Klarheit läßt sich nicht anwenden. Wir finden zwar den Menschen, aber unser Bewußtsein ist noch nicht stark genug, noch nicht intensiv genug, um diesen Menschen zu erfassen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":137,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-09-27/p020"},{"locus":"GA 322/1920-09-27/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Man möchte wiederum mit einem Ignorabimus antworten. Das darf aber nicht sein, denn wir brauchen etwas anderes als ein Ignorabimus gegenüber den sozialen Forderungen der modernen Welt. Nicht in einer Einrichtung der Menschennatur, sondern einfach in dem gegenwärtigen Stande der historischen Menschheitsentwickelung liegt die Grenzbestimmung, zu der am 14. August 1872 Du Bois-Reymond mit seinem Ignorabimus gekommen ist. Wie ist über dieses Ignorabimus hinauszukommen? Das ist die große Frage. 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