{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-09-28/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What does this imply? In establishing a correlation between our inner life and the external physical world of the senses we can use the concepts we form in interaction with nature in such a way that we try not to remain within the natural phenomena but to think on beyond them. We are doing this if we do more than simply say: within the spectrum there appears the color yellow next to the color green, and on the other side the blues. We are doing this if we do not simply interrelate the phenomena with the help of our concepts but seek instead, as it were, to pierce the veil of the senses and construct something more behind it with the aid of our concepts. We are doing this if we say: out of the clear concepts I have achieved I shall construct atoms, molecules—all the movements of matter that are supposed to ex-ist behind natural phenomena. Thereby something extraordinary happens. What happens is that when I as a human being confront the world of nature [see illustration], I use my concepts not only to create for myself a conceptual order within the realm of the senses but also to break through the boundary of sense and construct behind it atoms and the like I cannot bring my lucid thinking to a halt within the realm of the senses. I take my lesson from inert matter, which continues to roll on even when the propulsive force has ceased. My knowledge reaches the world of sense, and I remain inert. I have a certain inertia, and I roll with my concepts on beyond the realm of the senses to construct there a world the existence of which I can begin to doubt when I notice that my thinking has only been borne along by inertia.","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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Nun, wenn wir an den Wechselverkehr zwischen unserem Inneren und der Außenwelt, der sinnlich-physischen Außenwelt herankommen, dann können wir unsere Begriffe, die wir uns heranbilden an der Natur, noch gebrauchen, um nicht in der erscheinenden Natur stehenzubleiben, sondern noch hinter diese erscheinende Natur dahinter zu denken. Das tun wir, wenn wir nicht bloß sagen, im Spektrum erscheint neben der gelben Farbe die grüne Farbe und auf der andern Seite beginnt das Bläuliche, wenn wir nicht bloß die Phänomene, die Erscheinungen aneinandergliedern mit Hilfe des Mittels unserer Begriffe, sondern wenn wir diesen Sinnesteppich gleichsam mit unseren Begriffen durchstechen wollen und hinter ihm durch unsere Begriffe noch etwas konstruieren wollen. Das tun wir, wenn wir sagen: Ich bilde mir aus den klar gewonnenen Begriffen heraus Atome, Moleküle, dasjenige, was hinter den Erscheinungen der Natur sein soll, Bewegungen innerhalb der Materie. Da geschieht nämlich etwas Merkwürdiges. Da geschieht das, daß wenn ich hier als Mensch bin (siehe Zeichnung), den Sinneserscheinungen gegenüberstehe, ich meine Begriffe nicht allein dazu gebrauche, um für mich eine Erkenntnisordnung in dieser Sinneswelt zu begründen, sondern ich durchstoße die Grenze der Sinneswelt und konstruiere dahinter Atome und dergleichen. Ich kann gewissermaßen nicht stillstehen mit meinen klaren Begriffen bei der Sinneswelt. Ich bin gewissermaßen ein Schüler der trägen Materie, die immer noch fortrollt, wenn sie an einem Orte angekommen ist, auch wenn die Kraft des Fortrollens schon nachgelassen hat. Meine Erkenntnis kommt bis an die Sinneswelt heran, und ich bin träge, ich habe ein gewisses Beharrungsvermögen, ich rolle mit meinen Begriffen hinter die Sinneswelt noch hinunter und konstruiere mir da eine Welt, an der ich dann wiederum zweifle, wenn ich merke, daß ich nur meiner Trägheit gefolgt bin mit meinem ganzen Denken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-09-28/p014"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-09-28/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":284,"en_words":304,"ratio":1.07,"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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