{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 33/06_arthur_schopenhauer/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Schopenhauer describes the change brought about in his mind by these thoughts as a spiritual rebirth. They fill him with all the greater satisfaction as he finds them in full agreement with the views of the other philosopher to whom Schulze had pointed him, those of Plato. The latter says: \"As long as we relate to the world merely perceptively, we are like people who sit in a dark cave so tightly bound that they cannot turn their heads, and see nothing but by the light of a fire burning behind them, on the wall opposite them, the shadowy images of real things passing between them and the fire, and indeed of each other, and each of themselves only the shadows. Just as these shadows relate to the real things, so our objects of perception, according to Plato's conviction, relate to the Ideas, which are the objects of perception. The objects of perception arise and pass away, the ideas are eternal. Schopenhauer found the same view in Kant as in Plato: that the visible world has no true being. Schopenhauer soon regarded this as an incontrovertible, indeed as the first and most universal truth. For him it took the following form: I gain knowledge of things insofar as I see them, hear them, feel them, etc., in a word: insofar as I imagine them. An object becomes my object of knowledge means: it becomes my imagination. Heaven, earth, etc., are therefore my conceptions, for the thing in itself that corresponds to them has become my object only because it has assumed the character of conception. 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Dieser sagt: Solange wir uns zur Welt bloß wahrnehmend verhalten, sind wir wie Menschen, die in einer finsteren Höhle so festgebunden sitzen, daß sie den Kopf nicht drehen können, und nichts sehen, als beim Lichte eines hinter ihnen brennenden Feuers, an der ihnen gegenüberliegenden Wand, die Schattenbilder wirklicher Dinge, die zwischen ihnen und dem Feuer vorübergeführt werden, ja auch voneinander und jeder von sich selbst nur die Schatten. Wie diese Schatten zu den wirklichen Dingen, so verhalten sich unsre Wahrnehmungsobjekte, nach Platos Überzeugung, zu den Ideen, die das Wahrhaftseiende sind. Die Wahrnehmungsobjekte entstehen und vergehen, die Ideen sind ewig. Bei Kant sowohl wie bei Plato fand Schopenhauer die gleiche Anschauung: daß der sichtbaren Welt kein wahrhaftes Sein zukommt. Schopenhauer galt dies bald als eine unumstößliche, ja als die erste und allgemeinste Wahrheit. Sie nahm bei ihm folgende Form an: Ich erhalte von den Dingen Kenntnis, insofern ich sie sehe, höre, fühle usw., mit einem Worte: insofern ich sie vorstelle. Ein Gegenstand wird mein Erkenntnisobjekt heißt: er wird meine Vorstellung. Himmel, Erde usw. sind also meine Vorstellungen, denn das Ding an sich, das ihnen entspricht, ist nur dadurch mein Objekt geworden, daß es den Charakter der Vorstellung angenommen hat. Aus den Gedankenwelten Kants und Platos entnahm Schopenhauer den Keim zu denjenigen Teilen seines philosophischen Systems, in denen er die Welt als Vorstellung behandelt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/33/06_arthur_schopenhauer/p013"}],"english":["GA 33/06_arthur_schopenhauer/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":269,"en_words":292,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10419,"original_word_count":9688,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":null,"publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA033/English/SOL2024/06_Arthur_Schopenhauer.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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