{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In my book, *Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment*, I have described an entirely safe path leading to the super-sensible, but I describe it in such a way that it applies for everybody, above all for those who have not devoted their lives to science. Today I shall describe a path into the super-sensible that is much more for the scientist. All my experience has taught me that for such a scientist a kind of precondition for this cognitional striving is to take up what is presented in my book, *Philosophy of Freedom*. I will explain what I mean by this. This book, *Philosophy of Freedom*, was not written with the same intent as most books written today. Nowadays books are written simply in order to inform the reader of the book's subject matter, so that the reader learns the book's contents in accordance with his education, his scientific training, or the special knowledge he already possesses. This was not my primary Intention in writing *Philosophy of Freedom*, and thus it will not be popular with those who read books only to acquire Information. The purpose of the book is to make the reader directly engage his thinking activity on every page.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture VIII","site_heading":"Western Spiritual Science: Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition","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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Für diesen Wissenschafter muß ich auch nach allen meinen Erfahrungen als eine Art Voraussetzung ansehen — wir werden gleich nachher hören, in welchem Sinne das gemeint ist —, ich muß ansehen als eine richtige Voraussetzung dieses Erkenntnisweges das Verfolgen dessen, was in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» dargestellt ist. Diese «Philosophie der Freiheit» ist ja nicht in der Absicht geschrieben, in der heute zumeist Bücher geschrieben werden. Heute werden Bücher geschrieben zu dem Ziele, daß der Betreffende sich über den Inhalt des Mitgeteilten einfach informiert, daß er nach seinen besonderen Vorkenntnissen, nach seiner Bildung oder seiner wissenschaftlichen Kultur eben Kenntnis nimmt von dem, was inhaltlich in einem Buche enthalten ist. So ist eigentlich im Grunde genommen meine «Philosophie der Freiheit» nicht gemeint. Daher wird sie auch von denjenigen nicht gerade geliebt, die von einem Buche nur Kenntnis nehmen wollen. Meine «Philosophie der Freiheit» ist so gemeint, daß man zur unmittelbaren eigenen Denktätigkeit Seite für Seite greifen muß, daß gewissermaßen das Buch selbst nur eine Art Partitur ist und man in innerer Denktätigkeit diese Partitur lesen muß, um fortwährend aus dem Eigenen heraus von Gedanke zu Gedanke fortzuschreiten. So daß bei diesem Buch durchaus immer mit der gedanklichen Mitarbeit des Lesers gerechnet ist. Und es ist ferner gerechnet mit demjenigen, was aus der Seele wird, wenn sie eine solche Gedankenarbeit mitmacht. Derjenige, der sich nicht gesteht, daß, wenn er dieses Buch nun wirklich in eigener seelischer Gedankenarbeit absolviert hat, er dann gewissermaßen sich in einem Elemente des Seelenlebens erfaßt hat, in dem er sich früher nicht erfaßt hat; derjenige, der nicht spürt, daß er gewissermaßen herausgehoben ist aus seinem gewöhnlichen Vorstellen in ein sinnlichkeitsfreies Denken, in dem man sich ganz bewegt, so daß man erfühlt, wie man in diesem Denken frei geworden ist von den Bedingungen der Leiblichkeit, der liest eigentlich diese «Philosophie der Freiheit» nicht im richtigen Sinne. Und der versteht sie im Grunde genommen nicht richtig, der sich dies nicht gestehen kann. Man muß gewissermaßen sich sagen können: Jetzt weiß ich durch diese seelische Gedankenarbeit, die ich verrichtet habe, was eigentlich reines Denken ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":410,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-10-03_02/p004"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p004","GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p005"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":410,"en_words":395,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6201,"original_word_count":6102,"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/AP1983/19201003p01.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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