{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 66/1917-03-31/p044","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And that is the quality of most of the thoughts that now live in that tangle of mere thought-webs, which are, however, only a product of the body because they do not want to penetrate to the observing consciousness, where one first discovers the soul. Today, however, one will still find that such a view takes many revenge. I have called the world-view represented in these lectures Anthroposophy. This is in reference to the “Anthroposophy” of Robert Zimmermann, who was also a university professor, but who was equally opposed to Anthroposophy. For what would Robert Zimmermann have said about the Anthroposophy that is presented here? Well, he would say what he has already said about Schelling: the philosopher must remain within that which can be attained through thought. He must not appeal to something that requires a special training of the soul! One can speak in this way, then one is just practicing an anthroposophy like Robert Zimmermann did. You will find a thicket of thoughts in it; it will not interest you, because not a word is said about all the questions of the soul and the spirit. Of what I have discussed in these lectures, what is connected with the beyond of the soul and the beyond of the senses, what is connected with the question of the immortality of the human soul, with the question of fate — none of this is contained in that anthroposophy. For the whole of the thinking of this last century has, on the one hand, admittedly produced the great advances of natural science, which cannot be sufficiently admired, but on the other hand, it has also produced the attitude of mind towards knowledge that the youthful Renan, when he left college, expressed as his conviction when he had been led astray in his religious ideas by the insights of the modern scientific way of thinking. At that time he said: “The man of the present day is aware that he will never know anything about his highest causes or his destiny.” That is ultimately the confession of many today, except that because the confession has been around for so long, very many have become numb to it and do not feel how such a confession eats away at the soul when it is new. This confession has blocked the paths to the beyond of the soul and to the beyond of the senses that are characteristic of today. Ernest Renan, after all, was someone who felt how it is possible to live with such a blockage. And so, as an old man, he made a strange statement:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. The Beyond of the Senses and the Beyond of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1917-03-31","location":null,"word_count":436,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/66/1917-03-31/p044","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":"Mind and Matter — Life and Death","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA066/English/SOL2024/19170331p01.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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Denn was würde Robert Zimmermann gesagt haben zu der Anthroposophie, die hier vorgebracht wird? Nun, er würde sagen, was er schon gegen Schelling gesagt hat: Der Philosoph muß innerhalb desjenigen bleiben, was durch Gedanken erreichbar ist. Er darf nicht appellieren an irgend etwas, was eine besondere Ausbildung der Seele nötig macht! — Man kann so sprechen, dann treibt man eben eine Anthroposophie, wie Robert Zimmermann sie gemacht hat. Da finden Sie drinnen ein Gedankengestrüpp; interessieren wird es Sie nicht, denn über alle Fragen der Seele und des Geistes ist darin kein Sterbenswörtchen gesagt. Von dem, was ich in diesen Vorträgen besprochen habe, was mit dem Jenseits der Seele und dem jenseits der Sinne zusammenhängt, was mit der Unsterblichkeitsfrage der menschlichen Seele, mit der Schicksalsfrage zusammenhängt, — von alledem ist in jener Anthroposophie allerdings nichts drinnen. Denn das ganze Denken dieses letzten Jahrhunderts hat auf der einen Seite zwar die großen, nicht genug zu bewundernden Fortschritte der Naturwissenschaft hervorgebracht, aber auf der anderen Seite auch diejenige Erkenntnisgesinnung, die der jugendliche Renan, als er aus dem Colleg austrat, als seine Überzeugung aussprach, als er durch die Erkenntnisse der modernen naturwissenschaftlichen Denkweise irregeworden war in seinen religiösen Vorstellungen. Damals sprach er aus: «Der Mensch der Gegenwart ist sich bewußt, daß er niemals etwas über seine höchsten Ursachen oder seine Bestimmung wissen wird.» Das ist schließlich das Geständnis von vielen heute, nur daß, weil das Geständnis schon so lange lebt, sehr viele zu einer Art Betäubung darüber gekommen sind und nicht fühlen, wie solches Bekenntnis an der Seele frißt, wenn es neu ist. Verbaut hat sich dieses Bekenntnis die heute gekennzeichneten Wege zum Jenseits der Seele und zum Jenseits der Sinne. Ernest Renan war immerhin einer, der gefühlt hat, wie sich mit einem solchen Verbauen leben läßt. 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