{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 334/1920-03-18/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But never in human life will what is present in him as abstract thinking, what is the same in all people, be able to say yes to this struggle for existence; it will always be dissatisfied with this struggle for existence, it will always strive for harmony, for overcoming the struggle for existence. But if we do not succeed in pouring real spirituality into abstract intellectualism, the world of abstraction will be too weak to eliminate egoism from social life. And on the other hand, egoism will remain brutal if it is not infused with that which only spiritual knowledge, spiritual insight, can bring to man. That which appears dualistically in man today, on the one hand abstract intellectualism, on the other hand the mere rule of instincts, can only find its balance through the fact that both can be permeated by the spirit. When thoughts are spiritualized, they are brought to the individual human being and make this individual human being not only someone who wants to be right, who can give only that which others do not want, but someone who must constantly engage with other people, must constantly engage with other people, so to speak, using the language of thoughts instead of the language of phrases. But this can only be done out of a spiritual life that is not merely built on memory, but that, like hunger and thirst, is built on the daily renewal, on the metamorphosis of life, which must constantly renew itself, even if it has already reached the highest level. This can only happen if the instincts are imbued with those thoughts that arise in the way I have described today. Then, within his economic associations, man will be able to want what goes beyond the individual human being. Then economic life can be spiritualized. It is already the case that wherever one looks into real life today, the necessity for what one can demand as the threefold social order arises. This is not a utopia. Only those who have no sense of reality, who are utopians themselves, describe the threefold social order as utopian, and therefore declare everything that does not fit into their utopias to be utopian.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Dasjenige, was im Menschen heute dualistisch auftritt, auf der einen Seite der abstrakte Intellektualismus, auf der anderen Seite das bloße Walten der Instinkte, es kann nur seinen Ausgleich finden dadurch, daß beides durchdrungen werden kann vom Geiste. Werden die Gedanken vergeistigt, dann werden sie an den individuellen Menschen herangebracht und machen diesen individuellen Menschen zu dem, der nicht nur recht haben will, der nicht nur dasjenige geben kann, was die anderen nicht wollen, sondern der sich mit den anderen Menschen fortwährend auseinandersetzen muß, fortwährend mit den anderen Menschen gewissermaßen anstelle der Phrasensprache die Gedankensprache führen muß. Die wird aber nur geführt aus einem Geistesleben heraus, das nicht bloß auf die Erinnerung gebaut ist, sondern das wie Hunger und Durst auf die tägliche Erneuerung, auf die Metamorphose des Lebens gebaut ist, das immerfort sich erneuern muß, wenn es auch bis zum Höchsten schon gediehen wäre. Das kann nur geschehen, wenn die Instinkte durchdrungen werden von denjenigen Gedanken, die auf die Art entstehen, wie ich das heute geschildert habe. Dann wird der Mensch innerhalb seiner wirtschaftlichen Assoziationen dasjenige wollen können, was über den einzelnen Menschen hinausgeht. Dann wird das Wirtschaftsleben durchgeistigt sein können. Es ist schon so, wo man die Welt auch anfaßt heute, wo man hineinschaut ins wirklichkeitsgemäße Leben, da ergibt sich die Notwendigkeit zu dem, was man als Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus fordern kann. Das ist nicht eine Utopie. Als Utopie bezeichnen die Dreigliederung nur diejenigen Menschen, die keinen Wirklichkeitssinn haben, die selber Utopisten sind, und die daher alles dasjenige, was ihnen in ihre Utopien nicht hineinpaßt, zur Utopie erklären.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":366,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/334/1920-03-18/p028"}],"english":["GA 334/1920-03-18/p028"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":366,"en_words":367,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9598,"original_word_count":9332,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From a Unitary State to the Tripartite Social Organism","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA334/English/SOL2024/19200318s01.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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