{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-09-28/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A personality of extraordinary philosophical stature still looks over to us with a certain vitality out of the first half of the nineteenth century: Hegel. Only in the last few years has Hegel begun to be mentioned in the lecture halls and in the philosophical literature with somewhat more respect than in the recent past. In the last third of the nineteenth century the academic world attacked Hegel outright, yet one could demonstrate irrefutably that Eduard von Hartmann had been quite right in claiming that during the 1880s only two university lecturers in all of Germany had actually read him. The academics opposed Hegel but not on philosophical grounds, for as a philosopher they hardly knew him. Yet they knew him in a different way, in a way in which we still know him today. Few know Hegel as he is contained, or perhaps better said, as his world view is contained, in the many volumes that sit in the libraries. Those who know Hegel in this original form so peculiar to him are few indeed. Yet in certain modified forms he has become in a sense the most popular philosopher the world has ever known. Anyone who participates in a workers' meeting today or, even better, anyone who had participated in one during the last few decades and had heard what was discussed there; anyone with any sense for the source of the mode of thinking that had entered into these workers' meetings, who really knew the development of modern thought, could see that this mode of thinking had originated with Hegel and flowed through certain channels out into the broadest masses. And whoever investigated the literature and philosophy of Eastern Europe in this regard would find that the Hegelian mode of thinking had permeated to the farthest reaches of Russian cultural life. One thus could say that, anonymously, as it were, Hegel has become within the last few decades perhaps one of the most influential philosophers in human history. On the other hand, however, when one perceives what has come to be recognized by the broadest spectrum of humanity as Hegelianism, one is reminded of the portrait of a rather ugly man that a kind artist painted in such a way as to please the man's family. As one of the younger sons, who had previously paid little attention to the portrait, grew older and really observed it for the first time, he said: “But father, how you have changed!” And when one sees what has become of Hegel one might well say: “Dear philosopher, how you have changed!” To be sure, something extraordinary has happened regarding this Hegelian world view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Hegel, Marx, and the Limits of Conceptual Thinking","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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Man hat Hegel bekämpft, aber man hat ihn auf philosophischem Boden nicht gekannt. Aber man hat ihn in einer andern Weise gekannt, und in einer gewissen Art kennt man ihn heute noch. Hegel, so wie er beschlossen ist, oder besser gesagt, wie seine Weltanschauung beschlossen ist in der großen Anzahl der Bände, die als Hegels Werke in den Bibliotheken stehen, in dieser ihm ureigenen Gestalt kennen ihn allerdings wenige. Allein in gewissen Verwandlungsformen ist er, man könnte sagen, gerade der populärste Philosoph, den es jemals in der Welt gegeben hat. Wer heute, vielleicht aber noch besser wer vor einigen Jahrzehnten eine Proletarierversammlung mitmachte und hörte, was da diskutiert wurde, wer eine Wahrnehmung dafür hatte, woher die ganze Art der Gedankenbildung in einer solchen Proletarierversammlung kam, der wußte, wenn er wirkliche Erkenntnis der neueren Geistesgeschichte hatte, daß diese Gedankenbildung durchaus von Hegel ausgegangen ist und durch gewisse Kanäle in die breiteste Masse hineingeflossen ist. Und wer Philosophie und Literatur des europäischen Ostens gerade auf diese Frage hin untersuchen würde, der würde finden, daß in das Geistesleben Rußlands in breitestem Umfange die Gedankenformen der Hegelschen Weltanschauung voll eingewoben sind. Und so kann man sagen: Anonym gewissermaßen ist Hegel vielleicht einer der allerwirksamsten Philosophen der Menschheitsgeschichte in den letzten Jahrzehnten der neueren Zeit geworden. — Allein man möchte sagen, wenn man wiederum kennenlernt dasjenige, was da in den breitesten Schichten der neueren Menschheit als Hegeltum lebt, man werde erinnert an jenes Bild, das von einem etwas häßlichen Manne ein wohlwollender Maler gemalt hat, und es so gemalt hat, daß es die Familie gerne sah. Als dann ein jüngerer Sohn herangewachsen war, der vorher das Bild wenig betrachtet hatte, und es sah, da sagte er: Aber Vater, wie hast du dich verändert! - Man möchte sagen, wenn man sieht, was Hegel geworden ist: Aber mein Philosoph, wie hast du dich verändert! — Und es ist ja in der Tat etwas höchst Eigentümliches um diese Hegelsche Weltanschauung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":424,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-09-28/p005"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-09-28/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":424,"en_words":443,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3924,"original_word_count":3967,"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/AP1983/19200928p01.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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