{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 326/1922-12-26/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As matters stand today, these three orientations in man are regarded very superficially. These processes—front to back, right to left or left to right, and above to below—are not inwardly experienced so much as viewed from outside. If it were possible to go back into earlier ages with true psychological insight, one would perceive that these three orientations were inward experiences for the men of that time. Today our thoughts and feelings are still halfway acknowledged as inward experiences, but he man of a bygone age had a real inner experience, for example, of the front-to-back orientation. He had not yet lost awareness of the decrease in intensity of taste sensations from front to back in the oral cavity. The qualitative experience that taste was strong on the tip of the tongue, then grew fainter and fainter as it receded from front to back, until it disappeared entirely, was once a real and concrete experience. The orientation from front to back was felt in such qualitative experiences. Our inner life is no longer as intense as it once was. Therefore, today, we no longer have experiences such as this. Likewise man today no longer has a vivid feeling for the alignment of his axis of vision in order to focus on a given point by shifting the right axis over the left. Nor does he have a full concrete awareness of what happens when, in the orientation of right-left, he relates his right arm and hand to the left arm and hand. Even less does he have a feeling that would enable him to say: The thought illuminates my head and, moving in the direction from above to below, it strikes into my heart. Such a feeling, such an experience, has been lost to man along with the loss of all inwardness of world experience. But it did once exist. Man did once experience the three perpendicular orientation of space within himself. And these three spatial orientations—right-left, front-back, and above-below—are the basis of the three-dimensional framework of space, which is only the abstraction of the immediate inner experience described above.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Mathematics, Blood Experience, and the Birth of Modern Science","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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So wie wir heute als innere Erlebnisse, ich möchte sagen, halbwegs noch anerkennen das Gedanken-Haben, Gefühle-Haben, so hatte der Mensch einer früheren Zeit ein richtiges inneres Erlebnis zum Beispiel von dem Von-vorn-nach-Hinten. Für ihn war noch nicht verlorengegangen, sagen wir, die Ablähmung des vorne in der Mundhöhle sich intensiv entwickelnden Geschmacks gegen hinten zu. Das Qualitative, das darinnen lag, daß man den Geschmack intensiv vorne auf der Zunge fühlte, und dann ihn immer schwächer und schwächer empfand, indem er sich zurückzog in der Orientierung von vorne nach hinten und endlich sich ganz verlor, dieses Erleben war einmal für das innere menschliche Erleben etwas ganz Reales, Konkretes. Man verfolgte mit solchen Qualitätserlebnissen die Orientierung von vorne nach hinten. Der Mensch ist eben nicht mehr so innerlich, wie er einmal war. Daher hat er solche Erlebnisse, wie ich sie eben charakterisiert habe, heute nicht mehr. Ebensowenig hat der Mensch heute eine lebendige Empfindung von der Einstellung der Augenachse, um irgendeinen Punkt durch das Übergreifen der rechten Augenachse über die linke zu fixieren. Ebensowenig hat der Mensch heute eine voll konkrete Empfindung von dem, was ihm wird als Mensch, wenn er in der Orientierung rechts-links zuordnet, sagen wir, den rechten Arm und die rechte Hand dem linken Arm und der linken Hand. Und erst recht eine solche Empfindung wie die, daß man sich sagen kann: Im Haupte durchleuchtet mich der Gedanke, er schlägt ein, indem er sich in der Orientierung von oben nach unten bewegt in mein Herz -, eine solche Empfindung, ein solches Erlebnis ist eben mit der Innerlichkeit des Welterlebens für den Menschen verlorengegangen. Aber ein solches Erleben war da. Der Mensch hat zunächst in sich die drei aufeinander senkrecht stehenden Raumorientierungen erlebt. Und diese drei Raumorientierungen, sein Rechts-Links, sein Vorne-Hinten, sein Oben-Unten, die sind die Grundlage des dreidimensionalen Raumschemas. Das dreidimensionale Raumschema ist erst eine Abstraktion dieses Ihnen eben charakterisierten unmittelbaren Erlebens. Wie können wir also sprechen, etwa wenn wir auf ältere Zeiten hinschauen zu der Geometrie, zu diesem Teil der Mathematik? Wir können so sprechen, daß wir sagen, der Mensch früherer Zeiten war sich klar darüber, daß er sich sagen konnte: Durch meine Menschlichkeit offenbart sich mir in meinem eigenen Leben das Mathematische, das Geometrische, und indem ich verlängere mein Oben-Unten, mein Rechts-Links, mein Vorne-Hinten, umfasse ich von mir aus die Welt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":475,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/326/1922-12-26/p007"}],"english":["GA 326/1922-12-26/p008","GA 326/1922-12-26/p009"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":475,"en_words":414,"ratio":0.87,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 326/1922-12-26/p007"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4571,"original_word_count":4559,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Origins of Natural Science","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA326/English/AP1985/19221226p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","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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