{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 62/1913-04-03/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"That it is easy to preach morals is something that is obvious as soon as you take even a brief look at human life. For there is hardly anything else that is preached so much in this human life as morals. Nothing is more often judged than the moral worth or unworthiness of the soul. And if you look at this human life thoroughly, you have to say again: how little the actual sermons are suited to really reach into the souls, so that they would grasp these souls in such a way that the moral principles that one or the other means, even if they are clearly understood, can also be real moral impulses in the souls! Yes, how easily some people preach morality to themselves when it is very difficult for them to follow truly moral impulses. Schopenhauer says that everything that can be preached in terms of principles, moral formulas or moral prescriptions is actually meaningless. In his view, it is only meaningful if one can show a soul force in the human soul, a spiritual impulse that is precisely a reality in the soul and from which moral action arises. Then one would be able to say that one had pointed to something in the human soul that, if one only leaves it to itself, pushes one to moral action; then one would have found the reason for moral action in the soul. Then you have established morality, because you have clearly explained the real impulse in the soul. Then you have not just preached morality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"13. Morality in the Light of Spiritual Research","site_heading":null,"date":"1913-04-03","location":null,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1913-04-03/p007","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":"Results of Spiritual Research","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA062/English/SOL2024/19130403p01.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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Und wenn man dieses menschliche Leben gründlich betrachtet, so muß man wieder sagen: Wie wenig sind doch die eigentlichen Moralpredigten geeignet, wirklich in die Seelen hineinzugreifen, so daß sie diese Seelen so erfassen würden, daß die Moralgrundsätze, die der eine oder andere meint, selbst wenn sie klar eingesehen werden, auch wirkliche moralische Impulse in den Seelen sein können! — Ja, wie leicht kann sich mancher selber Moral predigen, dem es ganz und gar schwer wird, wirklich moralischen Impulsen zu folgen. Schopenhauer meint, alles, was man an Grundsätzen, an moralischen Formeln oder an moralischen Vorschriften predigen kann, sei eigentlich nicht bedeutungsvoll. Bedeutungsvoll ist in seinem Sinne nur, wenn man in der menschlichen Seele eine Seelenkraft, einen seelischen Impuls aufweisen kann, der eben als eine Wirklichkeit in der Seele ist und aus dem heraus moralisches Handeln entspringt. Dann würde man sagen können, man habe auf etwas in der menschlichen Seele hingewiesen, was, wenn man es nur sich selber überläßt, zu einem moralischen Handeln hindrängt; dann habe man den Grund des moralischen Handelns in der Seele gefunden. Dann habe man Moral begründet, weil man den wirklichen Impuls in der Seele klargelegt habe. 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