{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And now let us imagine a reader who simply sets about working through *The Philosophy of Freedom* within the context of his ordinary consciousness in the way I have described: he will, of course, not be able to claim that he has been transported into a super-sensible world. For I intentionally wrote *The Philosophy of Freedom* in the way that I did so that it would present itself to the world initially as a purely philosophical work. Just think what a disservice would have been accorded anthroposophically oriented spiritual science if I had begun immediately with spiritual scientific writings! These writings would, of course, have been disregarded by all trained philosophers as the worst kind of dilettantism, as the efforts of an amateur. To begin with I had to write purely philosophically. I had to present the world with something thought out philosophically in the strict sense, though it transcended the normal bounds of philosophy. At some point, however, the transition had to be made from a merely philosophical and scientific kind of writing to a spiritual scientific writing. This occurred at a time when I was invited to write a special chapter about Goethe's scientific writings for a German biography of Goethe. This was at the end of the last century, in the 1890s. And so I was to write the chapter on Goethe's scientific writings: I had, in fact, finished it and sent it to the publisher when there appeared another work of mine, called *Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age*. The book was a bridge between pure philosophy and an anthroposophical orientation. When this work came out, my manuscript was returned to me by the publisher, who had enclosed nothing but my fee so that I would not make a fuss, for thereby the legal obligations had been met. Among the learned pedants, there was obviously no interest in anything—not even a single chapter devoted to the development of Goethe's attitude toward natural science written by one who had authored this book on mysticism.","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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Diese geisteswissenschaftlichen Werke wären selbstverständlich als der purste Dilettantismus, als Laienliteratur von allen Fachphilosophen unberücksichtigt gelassen worden. Ich mußte zunächst rein philosophisch schreiben. Ich mußte zunächst vor die Welt hinstellen etwas, was im reinen Sinne philosophisch gedacht war, trotzdem es eben hinausging über das gewöhnliche Philosophische. Aber allerdings, einmal mußte der Übergang gemacht werden von dem bloßen philosophischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Schreiben zu dem geisteswissenschaftlichen Schreiben. Es war in einer Zeit, in welcher ich gerade eingeladen war, über Goethes «Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften» zu schreiben als ein besonderes Kapitel einer deutschen Goethe-Biographie. Es war am Ende der neunziger Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Und so sollte ich das Kapitel über Goethes «Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften» schreiben. Ich hatte es auch schon geschrieben, es war bereits dem Verleger abgeliefert, und unmittelbar hinterher erschien meine Schrift: «Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung», durch die ich herüberleitete den Weg von dem rein Philosophischen zu dem Anthroposophisch-Orientierten. Und ich bekam, nachdem diese Schrift erschienen war, mein Manuskript vom Verleger zurück, bloß vom Honorar begleitet, damit ich nicht irgendwie aufmucke, denn damit war dem Rechte sein Tribut gezollt. Aber man wollte von dem, der diese Mystik geschrieben hat, bei den wissenschaftlichen Zöpfen selbstverständlich nun auch nicht mehr ein Kapitel über die naturwissenschaftliche Entwickelung Goethes haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":301,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/322/1920-10-03_02/p006"}],"english":["GA 322/1920-10-03_02/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":301,"en_words":339,"ratio":1.13,"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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