{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 326/1922-12-27/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Therefore, Berkeley declared that bodies forming the external basis for sense perceptions do not really exist. Reality is spiritual through and through. The universe, as it appears to us—even where it appears in a bodily form—is but the manifestation of an all-pervading spirit. In Berkeley, these ideas appear pretty much as mere assertions, for he no longer had any trace of the old mysticism and even less of the ancient pneumatology. Except for his religious dogma, he really had no ground at all for his assertion of such all-pervading spirituality. But assert it he did, and so vigorously that all corporeality become for him no more than a revelation of the spirit. Hence it was impossible for Berkeley to say: I behold a color and there is vibrating movement back of it that I cannot see—which is what modern science justifiably states. Instead, Berkeley said: I cannot hypothetically assume that there is anything possessing any corporeal property such as vibratory movement. The basis of the physical world of phenomena must be spiritually conceived. Something spiritual is behind a color perception as its cause, which I experience in myself when I know myself as spirit. Thus Berkeley is a spiritualist in the sense in which this term is used in German philosophy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Mathematics Severed from Human Experience: 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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Man täuscht sich nur, wenn man meint, sie werde erlebt. — Daher machte Berkeley geltend, daß es eigentlich Körper, die außen den Sinneswahrnehmungen zugrunde liegen, gar nicht gibt, sondern daß die Wirklichkeit durch und durch geistig ist, und daß die Welt, wie sie uns erscheint, auch da, wo sie uns körperlich erscheint, eben die Offenbarung eines Allgeistigen ist. Bei Berkeley traten diese Dinge sehr stark in Form von Behauptungen auf, denn er hat eigentlich nichts mehr von der alten Mystik, noch weniger von der alten Pneumatologie. Er hat eigentlich keine Gründe, um diese Allgeistigkeit zu behaupten. Er behauptet sie mehr aus dem Dogma seiner Religion heraus, aber er behauptet sie eben, und er behauptet sie so stark, daß für ihn alles Körperliche nur eine Offenbarung des Geistigen wird. So daß es für ihn keine Möglichkeit etwa gibt, zu sagen: Da nehme ich irgendwo eine Farbe wahr, und hinter dieser Farbe ist schwingende Bewegung, die ich nicht wahrnehme -, wie es die moderne Naturanschauung ganz rechtmäßig tut, sondern Berkeley sagte sich: Irgend etwas, was auch nur irgendeine körperliche Eigenschaft hat, wie schwingende Materie, darf ich nicht als Hypothese annehmen. Dasjenige, was der physischen Erscheinungswelt zugrunde liegt, das muß ich geistig erleben, so daß hinter einer Farbwahrnehmung eben als Ursache dieser Farbenwahrnehmung Geistiges ist, das ich eben auch in mir, wenn ich mich als Geist weiß, erlebe. - Spiritualist in dem Sinne, wie das Wort innerhalb der deutschen Philosophie gebraucht wird, ist Berkeley durchaus. So daß also Berkeley eigentlich, ich möchte sagen, zwar aus dogmatischen Gründen, aber mit einem gewissen Recht, unzählige Einwendungen macht gegen die Annahme einer Natur, über die man mathematisieren dürfe mit einer Mathematik, die man losgerissen hat von dem unmittelbaren Erleben. Denn indem er den ganzen Kosmos eigentlich als geistig betrachtete, betrachtete er auch die Mathematik als etwas, was zusammen mit dem Geist des Kosmos geformt wird, gebildet wird, so daß man also eigentlich die Absichten des Kosmos-Geistes, insofern sie mathematisch gestaltet sind, erlebt, daß man aber nicht in äußerlicher Weise ein Mathematisches auf eine Körperlichkeit anwendet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":425,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/326/1922-12-27/p015"}],"english":["GA 326/1922-12-27/p017","GA 326/1922-12-27/p018","GA 326/1922-12-27/p019"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":425,"en_words":397,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6036,"original_word_count":5743,"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/AP1985/19221227p01.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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