{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 334/1920-05-05/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Yes, people were more consistent. I would like to read you another example. A lady wrote to one of the leading scientific world-view designers of the time, Moleschott. This lady wrote the following about her view of moral human value: “The moral measure for every human being lies only in his own nature, and is therefore different for everyone. What are debauchery and passion in themselves? Nothing more than a greater or lesser extent of a fully justified urge.” And the lady continues: ‘I love humanity as it is, and even the thief and the murderer have their lesson’ - she means Moleschott's lesson - ”taught me to respect and recognize his human rights. Everything that makes the thief as well as the merchant is fully entitled in the circle of human abilities. In both cases, cunning and trickery, combined with the urge to acquire, are only one combination with other mental powers, the animating principle. Everything that enters life has also acquired its right to live with this entry. Therefore, I must say it again: Even man who has become a thief brought with him the right to fulfill his nature and to make it all-round, and in this way he can only be a powerful, moral nature. And like the thief, so every vicious person, even he who has become a murderer. He can only achieve the perfection of his humanity by satisfying his lust for murder.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. Soul Nature And Moral Human Value In The Light Of Spiritual Science (Anthroposophy)","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-05-05","location":null,"word_count":239,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/334/1920-05-05/p014","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19200505s01.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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Nichts anderes als ein größeres oder kleineres Ausmaß eines vollberechtigten Triebes.» Und weiter schreibt die Dame: «Die Menschheit habe ich lieb, wie sie ist, und selbst den Dieb und den Mörder hat ihre Lehre» - sie meint Moleschotts Lehre — «mich achten und seine Menschenrechte anerkennen gelehrt. Vollberechtigt im Kreise menschlicher Anlagen ist alles, was den Dieb sowohl als den Kaufmann macht. List und Verschlagenheit, mit dem Erwerbstrieb verbunden, ist hier wie dort nur eine Zusammenstellung mit anderen Geisteskräften, das belebende Prinzip. Alles, was ins Leben eintritt, hat mit diesem Eintritt auch sein Recht zu leben erworben. Darum muß ich es noch einmal aussprechen: Auch der zum Dieb gewordene Mensch brachte das Recht mit sich, seine Natur zu vollenden, und sie allseitig zu machen, und kann auf diese Weise nur eine kraftvolle, eine sittliche Natur sein. Und wie der Dieb, so jeder Lasterhafte, auch der zum Mörder Gewordene. Dieser kann zur Vollendung seiner Menschheit nur gelangen, indem er seine Mordlust befriedigt.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":228,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/334/1920-05-05/p014"}],"english":["GA 334/1920-05-05/p014"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":228,"en_words":239,"ratio":1.05,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7461,"original_word_count":7072,"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/SOL2024/19200505s01.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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