{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 56/1907-11-28/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"One can also try the same thing in higher realms. A German philosopher did so, not sufficiently, but in a fundamental and tremendously profound way that has not been understood. If an anecdote that is told were true, it would testify to this fact in its depth! The much-maligned Hegel is said to have said: “Only one person understood me, and even he misunderstood me.” Hegel attempted to create concepts free of sensuality that live in the human environment and in human history. Hegel's “Philosophy of History” has now been published in Reclam's Universal Library, in which he gives a broad overview of the entire history of the world. Much of it is not correct, much of it is unfortunately as one-sided as only Hegel could be one-sided, so that the book can only serve as inspiration. However, it will serve well in finding the principle. Hegel strove for non-sensual thinking, so that he lets everything appear in his own mind, which is the same mind that has guided humanity. Anyone who wants to do this needs a more intimate knowledge of the spirit of man and of peoples than Hegel could possess. Everything therefore appears abstract, gray, logical in a bad sense; but the things are witty and stimulating. And here one must say: what is wrong there can be of much more use to humanity than even so much that is right but trivial.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Initiation or Consecration","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-11-28","location":null,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-11-28/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071128p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-11-28/p025"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-11-28/p025","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Jetzt ist in der Reclamschen Universalbibliothek Hegels «Philosophie der Geschichte» erschienen, worin er einen großen Überblick gibt über die ganze Weltgeschichte, Vieles darin ist nicht richtig, vieles ist leider so einseitig, wie eben nur Hegel einseitig sein konnte, so daß das Buch nur zur Anregung dienen kann. Es wird aber gut dazu dienen können, um das Prinzip zu finden. Hegel hat sich bemüht um sinnlichkeitsfreies Denken, so daß er im eigenen Geiste, der derselbe Geist ist wie der, welcher die Menschheit geleitet hat, alles auftreten läßt. Wer das tun will, der braucht eine intimere Kenntnis des Geistes des Menschen und der Völker, als sie Hegel besitzen konnte. Es erscheint daher alles abstrakt, grau, im schlechten Sinne logisch; aber die Dinge sind geistreich und anregend. 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