{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1915-12-10/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Anyone who regards spiritual science, as it is meant here and as I have been allowed to present it here for years, as something that is very far removed from ordinary human nature, in the ordinary life of man, something strangely remote, alien, and, as it were, otherworldly; who sees in spiritual research something that can only be acquired through special, extraordinary gifts, not accessible to ordinary human nature. In contrast to this, it has been emphasized time and again: spiritual science wants to be nothing more than the genuine continuation of the natural scientific world view for the spiritual realm, insofar as this has found its methods in more recent times, which, in relation to the research of material, external sensory phenomena, has led to previously unimagined results and successes. The difficulty in understanding the whole attitude and intention of spiritual science lies in the fact that, from the point of view of the present-day world-view attitude, it is difficult for man to realize that this spiritual science basically wants nothing more than to inner human thought and other soul experiences in a similar way, through purely inward processes, as certain external manipulations, certain external actions are refined and developed in the scientific experiment. Just as the scientific experiment, through which nature is to be coaxed into revealing its secrets, is basically nothing more than a refinement, in a certain sense an elevation, if I may use the word, of activities that are otherwise also carried out with external material things, which are only carried out in a certain, let us say, methodical sense, so that through their combination nature reveals its secrets to the human soul. Just as the scientific experiment is nothing more than a continuation, so to speak, of the external activity of man, so too is spiritual scientific research nothing more than a continuation, let us say, a refinement of what the human soul accomplishes in the ordinary course of life and in ordinary science in terms of thinking and other soul activities. The first difficulty is that the path from one to the other is not always sought in the way I indicated here eight days ago.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Demgegenüber wurde ja hier immer wieder und wiederum betont: Geisteswissenschaft will nichts anderes sein, als für das geistige Gebiet die echte Fortsetzung der naturwissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung, insofern diese in der neueren Zeit ihre Methoden gefunden hat, die sie in bezug auf die Erforschung der materiellen, der äußerlich sinnlichen Erscheinungen, zu früher ungeahnten Ergebnissen und Erfolgen geführt hat. Die Schwierigkeit in der Auffassung der ganzen Gesinnung und der ganzen Absicht der Geisteswissenschaft liegt darinnen, daß es der Mensch vom Gesichtspunkte der gegenwärtigen Weltanschauungsgesinnung aus schwer hat, einzusehen, daß diese Geisteswissenschaft im Grunde genommen nichts anderes will, als die inneren menschlichen Denk- und sonstigen Seelenerlebnisse in einer ähnlichen Weise auszubilden, durch rein innerliche Vorgänge auszubilden, wie gewisse äußerliche Hantierungen, gewisse äußerliche Verrichtungen verfeinert und ausgebildet werden im naturwissenschaftlichen Experiment. So wie das naturwissenschaftliche Experiment, durch das der Natur ihre Geheimnisse abgelauscht werden sollen, im Grunde genommen nichts anderes ist, als eine Verfeinerung, in gewissem Sinne eine Erhöhung, wenn ich das Wort brauchen darf, von Verrichtungen, die sonst auch mit äußerlich materiellen Dingen vorgenommen werden, die nur in einem gewissen, sagen wir, methodischen Sinne vorgenommen werden, so daß durch ihre Zusammenstellung die Natur ihre Geheimnisse der Menschenseele enthüllt. So wie das naturwissenschaftliche Experiment nichts anderes ist als eine Fortsetzung gewissermaßen der äußeren Betätigung des Menschen, so ist auch das geisteswissenschaftliche Forschen nichts anderes als eine Fortsetzung, sagen wir, eine Verfeinerung desjenigen, was die Menschenseele im gewöhnlichen Verlaufe des Lebens und in der gewöhnlichen Wissenschaft an Denk- und anderen Seelenverrichtungen vollbringt. Das ist die eine Schwierigkeit, daß der Weg von dem einen zu dem anderen nicht immer zum Beispiel in der heute vor acht Tagen hier angedeuteten Weise gesucht wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1915-12-10/p003"}],"english":["GA 65/1915-12-10/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":351,"en_words":363,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11977,"original_word_count":11532,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19151210p01.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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