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And then he attempts to characterize the concept of freedom that the German people have, a concept of freedom of which Herman Grimm himself also spoke, more beautifully than Troeltsch, but in almost similar words: “It was reserved for the German people to recognize as the character of the human being in the idea that freedom which unites the full development of human individuality and personality with harmonious cooperation in the totality.” When such people characterize freedom in such a way that man works in freedom, it is always meant that what can flow from his soul as freedom is integrated into spiritual life. And especially before the middle of the last century, no German could have spoken of freedom without characterizing this freedom from the depths of spiritual life. It was only after the English influences in the second half of the nineteenth century that Germans also more or less abandoned this. But little by little they are coming back to it. And the essay continues: “If one wants to formulate a formula for German unity, one could say: organized national unity based on a dutiful and at the same time critical devotion of the individual to the whole, supplemented and corrected by the independence and individuality of free spiritual education.” — At least one idea of freedom, albeit perhaps one that could be called pedantic, but one shaped out of the abundance of spiritual understanding, an answer from the spirit to the question: What is freedom?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. The Development of the German Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-04-13","location":null,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p050","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":"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/SOL2024/19160413p01.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 dann versucht er, jene Freiheitsidee, die das deutsche Volk hat, zu charakterisieren, jene Freiheitsidee, von der Herman Grimm selber auch gesagt hat, schöner als Troeltsch, aber fast mit ähnlichen Worten: «Dem deutschen Volke war es vorbehalten, jene Freiheit als Charakter des Menschen in der Idee zu erkennen, die die volle Ausgestaltung der menschlichen Individualität und Persönlichkeit vereinigt mit einem harmonischen Zusammenwirken in der Gesamtheit.» Wenn solche Leute die Freiheit so charakterisieren, daß der Mensch in der Freiheit wirkt, dann ist immer gemeint, daß das, was aus seiner Seele als Freiheit fließen kann, sich eingliedert dem Geistesleben. Und insbesondere vor der Mitte des verflossenen Jahrhunderts hätte kein Deutscher von der Freiheit sprechen können, ohne diese Freiheit aus dem Tiefsten des Geisteslebens heraus zu charakterisieren. Erst nach den englischen Einflüssen in der zweiten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts sind auch Deutsche mehr oder weniger davon abgekommen. Aber sie kommen nach und nach auch wieder darauf zurück. Und in dem erwähnten Aufsatz heißt es weiter: «Will man eine Formel für die deutsche Einheit prägen, so wird man sagen können: organisierte Volkseinheit auf Grund einer pflichtmäßigen und zugleich kritischen Hingabe des Einzelnen an das Ganze, ergänzt und berichtigt durch Selbständigkeit und Individualität der freien geistigen Bildung.» — Immerhin eine, wenn auch vielleicht pedantisch zu nennende, aber aus der Fülle des geistigen Erfassens heraus geprägte Idee von der Freiheit, eine Antwort aus dem Geiste heraus auf die Frage: Was ist Freiheit?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p050"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p050"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":313,"en_words":324,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12620,"original_word_count":11914,"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/SOL2024/19160413p01.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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