{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 352/1924-01-23/p031","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But what does our science do? Our science waits with its study until the human being has died. Because what it knows about the living human being is actually very little compared to what it actually knows from anatomy when the human being is a corpse, has died. Everything you can actually learn relates only to the corpse. Our science always waits for the corpse. So this science cannot know anything at all about the real human being who is alive, because it does not take this human being into account at all. And that is precisely the damage to our science – it has only been like this since the 17th century – that it has basically only gained its knowledge from the corpse. But the corpse is no longer the human being, because one must ask: What is it that, while the human being is alive, the corpse, which he also carries with him during his lifetime, does not behave as a corpse in such a way that it rots, ferments and becomes putrid? It is precisely when one really looks at the living human being that one comes across these spiritual, these supersensible aspects of the human being. And then one also notices that the ego works primarily in the head, that the astral body works primarily in the chest, and that the etheric body works primarily in the lower body. And science does not even know about the lower body, because it believes that the same processes that are outside in nature are in the lower body. That is simply not the case.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Jahrhundert ist es ja eigentlich erst so —, daß sie ihre ganze Erkenntnis im Grunde genommen nur vom Leichnam her hat. Aber der Leichnam ist nicht mehr der Mensch, denn man muß fragen: Was macht, daß, während der Mensch lebt, der Leichnam, den er ja auch im Leben an sich trägt, sich als Leichnam nicht so benimmt, daß er fault, gärt und ranzig wird? Gerade wenn man den lebenden Menschen wirklich betrachtet, so kommt man schon auf diese geistigen, auf diese übersinnlichen Glieder der Menschenna:r. Und dann merkt man auch, daß das Ich vorzugsweise im Kopfe wirkt, daß der astralische Leib vorzugsweise in der Brust wirkt, und daß der Ätherleib vorzugsweise im Unterleib wirkt. Und die Wissenschaft weiß nicht einmal etwas vom Unterleib, weil sie glaubt, im Unterleib seien ganz. dieselben Vorgänge, die draußen in der Natur sind. 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