{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 324/1921-03-17/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"When we observe the result of an act of will, this is only something we are able to look at externally. We do not know what has happened inwardly when a will impulse moves our arm. We only see the arm move; that is, we observe the outer happening afterward. Thus we accompany the manifestations of our will with mental images; they are mediated organically through the metabolic system and the limb system related to it. So it is only in part of the human organism, in the metabolic system—which is the bodily aspect of the soul's will activity—that we experience the reality of all three dimensions of space. In our ordinary process of knowing the reality of the three dimensions cannot be grasped. It cannot be grasped, as we will see, until we are able to look with the same clarity into our will activity as we normally do into our mental activity. It cannot come about in our ordinary way of knowing but only with spiritual-scientific knowledge. It is through the activation of the entire man, of the entire limb-and-metabolic system, that our subconscious experience of the three dimensions comes about. What happens is that what is contained in the metabolic-limb system is lifted into the rhythmic system. There it is experienced in its two-dimensional aspect, not in its total reality. When experienced in two dimensions, the height dimension has already become abstract. Only in the subconscious do we normally experience the height dimension.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Three Dimensions and Human Organization","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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Wodurch wissen wir eigentlich etwas vom Willen? Im Grunde genommen wissen wir von dem Willen selbst seiner Wesenhaftigkeit nach im gewöhnlichen Erkennen ja nichts, und das findet sich, ich möchte sagen, auch dokumentiert, ausgesprochen in einer solchen Psychologie wie der von Theodor Ziehen, der ja im Grunde genommen in seiner «Physiologischen Psychologie» nur vom Vorstellungsleben spricht. Die Tatsache, die er aber nicht kennt, die ich Ihnen eben jetzt vorgeführt habe, daß das Gefühlsleben eigentlich an den rhythmischen Organismus gebunden ist und nur aufstrahlt in das Vorstellungsleben, die bringt Theodor Ziehen abstrakt so zum Ausdruck, daß er sagt: Eigentlich können wir als Psychologen nur das Vorstellungsleben verfolgen und finden gewisse Vorstellungen gefühlsbetont. — Also gewissermaßen wären die Gefühle nur Eigenschaften des Vorstellungslebens. Das alles beruht eben darauf, daß von einem solchen Psychologen die eigentliche menschliche Organisation nicht durchschaut wird, die sich eben durchaus so verhält, wie ich jetzt zum Ausdruck gebracht habe. Die Gefühle bleiben, weil sie an den rhythmischen Organismus gebunden sind, im halbbewußten Zustand des Traumes, und völlig im Unbewußten bleibt das eigentliche Wesen der Willensakte. Daher werden sie von den gewöhnlichen Psychologen überhaupt nicht mehr beschrieben. Lesen Sie die sonderbaren Ausführungen gerade Theodor Ziehens über die Willensbetätigung, so werden Sie sehen, daß dem Beobachtungsvermögen dieser Psychologen die innere Betätigung des Willens- wir werden darauf zu sprechen kommen, wie sie ist- durchaus aus der Hand fällt. In der äußeren Beobachtung haben wir eben nichts anderes gegeben als das, was wir anschauen können, das Ergebnis eines Willensaktes. Wir wissen nicht das Innere, was sich vollzogen hat, wenn ein Willensimpuls unseren Arm bewegt. Wir sehen nur den Arm sich bewegen, also die äußere Tatsache beobachten wir hinterher. Wir begleiten dadurch die Offenbarungen unseres Willens mit Vorstellungen und dadurch betrachten wir sie, die sonst durchaus nur organisch durch das Stoffwechselsystem und das mit dem in Verbindung stehende Gliedmaßensystem vermittelt sind, auch als zusammenhängend mit dem Vorstellungswesen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":325,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/324/1921-03-17/p021"}],"english":["GA 324/1921-03-17/p023","GA 324/1921-03-17/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":325,"en_words":308,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.91,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4163,"original_word_count":4561,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Walter Stuber and Mark Gardner","identified_edition":"MP1991","book_title":"Anthroposophy and Science","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA324/English/MP1991/19210317p01.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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