{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 62/1913-04-03/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we see how people who start from different points of view could judge such an act quite differently and would not need to meet what lived in the soul as the true impulse. Herman Grimm is particularly concerned with this case because he wants to show how much moral judgments are to be received with a certain reserve when they come to us through such an important personality, for example in memoirs. All such judgments could come to us in memoirs, because the whole thing I am presenting here really happened in a similar situation, namely with the great poet Lord Byron. And in his discussion of one of his biographers who was acquainted with Byron, Herman Grimm comes to speak of the case. He is mentioned here because it is a very good illustration of the whole range of life judgments that we have gained in very different ways when we set out to judge some moral act of a human being. Thus, it must indeed be said that, while it is difficult, in the general sense of Schopenhauer, to establish morality, it becomes downright impossible, in the individual case, to approach a person's inner life with a conclusive moral judgment in such a way that this conclusive moral judgment would truly apply to the facts of the case. But one should not, on the basis of these premises, arrive at a judgment oneself, as if one had to be indifferent to morality. On the contrary! Those who grasp life in its entirety will nevertheless regard morality as the most sacred thing in human life and thereby come to the conclusion that the most sacred thing in human life must at the same time be treated with a holy awe. For it is in many respects presumptuous to confront another person with a moral judgment, considering how much separates one soul from another. Having made these assumptions, let us now consider what has been said about the nature of spiritual science in these various lectures. On the one hand, spiritual science leads us deeper into the spiritual foundations of things. But at the same time we have seen how it is able to do this: it is possible because we expose deeper forces of our soul life, so that we grasp the spiritual foundations of the world only by bringing up the forces slumbering in the depths of the human soul. Thus, it is precisely by means of the methods of spiritual research that we approach the deeper foundations of the human soul, those foundations from which moral impulses often arise in such mysterious ways. And the question must be: What happens when, in the depths of the soul, those researches that seek to bring these depths to light encounter the moral impulses? After all, in the ordinary everyday life of the physical world, it is the case that the moral impulses can speak with great certainty from the depths to the simplest human soul, to the most uneducated human soul. And many a highly educated person, many a person who perhaps counts himself among the philosophers or is a scientist, can be put to shame in the moral realm by a simple personality who does not call much of her own in terms of knowledge, and who, nevertheless, is able to perform the most self-sacrificing acts of genuine human love in the most difficult cases, from the depths of her soul. Ordinary knowledge, outer physical cognition, certainly does not need to lead down into the depths from which the moral impulses arise, the impulses from which morality is to be established.","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":604,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1913-04-03/p011","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 bei Besprechung eines seiner Memoirenschreiber, der mit Byron bekannt war, kommt Herman Grimm auf den Fall zu sprechen. Hier soll er aus dem Grunde angeführt werden, weil dadurch so recht anschaulich wird, was sich alles vorlagert an Lebensurteilen, die wir auf ganz verschiedene Weisen gewonnen haben, wenn wir darangehen, irgendeine moralische Tat eines Menschen zu beurteilen. So muß man tatsächlich sagen, ist es schon im allgemeinen im Sinne Schopenhauers schwierig, Moral zu begründen, so wird es geradezu zu etwas Unmöglichem, im einzelnen Falle sich mit einem abschließenden moralischen Urteile so dem Seelenleben eines Menschen zu nähern, daß dieses abschließende moralische Urteil wirklich den Tatbestand treffen würde. Man sollte nun aber aus diesen Voraussetzungen heraus nicht etwa selber das Urteil gewinnen, als ob man der Moral gegenüber gleichgültig zu sein habe. Im Gegenteil! Wer das Leben in seiner Ganzheit erfaßt, wird trotzdem die Moral als das Heiligste im Menschenleben ansehen und dabei zu dem Urteile kommen, daß das Heiligste im Menschenleben zugleich auch mit einer heiligen Scheu angefaßt werden muß. Denn es ist in vieler Beziehung eine Vermessenheit, sich einem anderen Menschen mit einem moralischen Urteile gegenüberzustellen, in Anbetracht des Umstandes, wie vieles die eine Seele von der anderen trennt. Stellen wir, nachdem diese Voraussetzungen gemacht worden sind, nun dasjenige hin, was über den Charakter der Geisteswissenschaft in diesen verschiedenen Vorträgen hier vorgebracht ist. Geisteswissenschaft führt uns auf der einen Seite tiefer in die geistigen Grundlagen der Dinge hinein. Aber wir haben zugleich gesehen, wodurch sie dazu imstande ist: Es ist dadurch möglich, daß wir tieferliegende Kräfte unseres Seelenlebens bloßlegen, so daß wir die geistigen Untergründe der Welt nur dadurch erfassen, daß wir die in den Tiefen der Menschenseele schlummernden Kräfte heraufholen. Wir nähern uns also gerade mit den Methoden der Geistesforschung den tieferen Untergründen des menschlichen Seelenlebens, jenen Untergründen, aus denen in oftmals so geheimnisvoller Weise die moralischen Impulse hervorquellen. Und die Frage muß sein: Was geschieht, wenn in den Seelenuntergründen jene Forschungen, welche diese Seelenuntergründe heraufholen wollen, zusammentreffen mit den moralischen Impulsen? Ist es ja doch im gewöhnlichen alltäglichen Leben der physischen Welt so, daß zu der allereinfachsten Menschenseele, zu der ungelehrtesten Menschenseele die moralischen Impulse mit einer großen Sicherheit aus den Tiefen herauf sprechen können. Und gar manchen hochgelehrten Menschen, gar manchen, der sich vielleicht zu den Philosophen zählt oder ein Wissenschaftler ist, kann auf moralischem Gebiete eine einfache Persönlichkeit beschämen, welche in bezug auf Erkenntnis nicht viel ihr eigen nennt, und die dennoch aus den Tiefen ihrer Seele heraus in den schwierigsten Fällen aufopferndste Taten echter Menschenliebe zu vollführen vermag. Gewöhnliches Wissen, äußere physische Erkenntnis, braucht gewiß nicht in die Tiefen hinunterzuführen, aus denen die moralischen Impulse hervorquellen, die Impulse, aus denen Moral begründet werden soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":552,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/62/1913-04-03/p011"}],"english":["GA 62/1913-04-03/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":552,"en_words":604,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8181,"original_word_count":7857,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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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