{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 62/1913-04-03/p037","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus, when we consider the moral foundations of the human soul in a spiritual sense, we see that we are actually touching on what is active in this human soul, what is present in it as impulses, in that the soul lives its way from one life to the next and builds up the new life according to what it has brought with it as causes from the previous one. Thus morality becomes the formative power from one life to the next, and we preach not only morality, but we show what morality does, how it works as a power in the human soul, and then indeed all those objections that are sometimes raised with an apparent right against spiritual science fall away. It is often said that when spiritual science speaks of repeated lives on earth in the sense that karma will balance out in a future life the joy or suffering a person has experienced, it is based on a certain selfishness. But if we do not quibble over words, but look at the essential point, if we do not merely want to preach morality but to found morality, then it must be said that in order to become ever more moral, the soul must become ever more perfect, that is, the inner impulses for its perfection must be shown. It must therefore be shown how moral impulses are related to the perfection or imperfection of the soul. If, then, the aim is to show the relationship between spiritual science and morality, then we can say: this spiritual science is most certainly justified before the justified demands of morality, because it must incorporate the moral demands into its most significant demands. Indeed, it justifies in a certain way those impulses that prevailed with a thinker such as Plato, who designated the divine-spiritual as the “good”, by showing how the spiritual can only endure what is good, that is, it must be intimately related to what is good.","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":329,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/62/1913-04-03/p037","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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So wird Moral zur gestaltenden Kraft von dem einen Leben in das andere hinüber, und wir predigen dann nicht nur Moral, sondern wir zeigen, was Moral tut, wie sie als Kraft in der Menschenseele wirkt, und dann fallen in der Tat alle diejenigen Einwände hinweg, die manchmal mit einem scheinbaren Recht gegen die Geisteswissenschaft gemacht werden. Es wird oftmals gesagt, wenn die Geisteswissenschaft von wiederholten Erdenleben in dem Sinne spreche, daß sich durch das Karma in einem folgenden Leben ausgleichen würde, was ein Mensch an Freud oder Leid erfahren hat, so begründe dies einen gewissen Egoismus. Aber wenn man sich nicht um Worte streitet, sondern auf dasjenige sieht, worauf es ankommt, wenn man nicht bloß von Moral-Predigen, sondern von Moral-Begründen sprechen will, dann muß gesagt werden: Um immer moralischer und moralischer zu werden, muß die Seele immer vollkommener und vollkommener werden, das heißt, es müssen für ihr Vollkommenerwerden die inneren Impulse aufgezeigt werden. Es muß also aufgezeigt werden, wie moralische Impulse mit der Vollkommenheit oder Unvollkommenheit der Seele zusammenhängen. Wenn es sich also darum handelt, das Verhältnis von Geisteswissenschaft zur Moral darzustellen, dann können wir sagen: Diese Geisteswissenschaft ist vor den berechtigten Anforderungen der Moral ganz gewiß gerechtfertigt, denn in ihre bedeutsamsten Forderungen muß sie die moralischen Forderungen zugleich aufnehmen. 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