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And as an ideal for humanity, that strove to insert its purpose in the universe accordingly, the ideal of the wise surfaced before the soul vision of the Stoics.—It would take us too far, if we were to exhaustively portray the ideals of the Stoics, and how this all is connected with the general stoical world view. But one point at least must be raised, that in Stoicism an awareness came into play, that human development was going towards an ever clearer and clearer self-aware human being, in order to work upon the human consciousness of the I. This was said in the stoic manner: this I, through which humanity is enabled to insert itself in full clarity in the world, this I, can be darkened, and can at the same time deaden itself; and this deadening happens if a human being allows feeling life to enter too strongly into the surging wave-play of imagination and perception. To the Stoics, if a human being were to allow the clarity of the I to be submerged, to be befogged by the being of pain and emotion, this seemed a kind of spiritual impotence. For this reason, for the Stoics, holding back the pain and emotion within the human soul, and striving for peace and equilibrium, led to freedom from the spiritual impotence of the soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-01-15","location":null,"word_count":336,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-01-15/p004","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140115p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Dies können wir als die Grundfrage der Stoiker bezeichnen. Und als ein Ideal für den Menschen, der sich seiner Bestimmung gemäß in das Weltenall hineinzustellen bestrebt war, tauchte vor den Seelenaugen der Stoiker das Ideal des Weisen auf. -— Es würde zu weit führen, wenn man in ausführlicher Art das Ideal des stoischen Weisen schildern wollte, und wie es zusammenhängt mit der ganzen stoischen Weltanschauung. Aber das eine sei wenigstens hervorgehoben, daß im Stoizismus uns ein Bewußtsein davon entgegentritt, daß die menschliche Entwickelung dahin gehe, immer klarer und klarer des Menschen selbstbewußtes Wesen, des Menschen Ich-Bewußtsein herauszuarbeiten. Es sagte sich der stoische Weise: Dieses Ich, durch welches der Mensch in völliger Klarheit sich in die Welt hineinzustellen vermag, dieses Ich kann getrübt werden, kann gleichsam sich selber betäuben; und es betäubt sich, wenn der Mensch in das Wellen- und Wogenspiel seines Vorstellens und Empfindens sein Affektleben zu stark hereinkommen läßt. Wie eine Art geistiger Ohnmacht erschien es dem Stoiker, wenn der Mensch die Klarheit seines Ich überfluten läßt, benebeln läßt von seinem Leidenschaftsund Affektwesen. 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