{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 67/1918-02-07/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today I would like to examine one sub-question as comprehensively as possible: the question of human beings as soul beings and spirit beings. Just by uttering these words, one actually touches on the question of the human soul in a way that is quite foreign to the current view of the world. The current view of the world, if it even allows itself to look at anything other than what biology, physiology, and experimental psychology have to offer, speaks of a duality of man in terms of body and soul. Today we will show that this division of the human being into body and soul alone must lead to the most difficult misunderstandings, which actually distract a truly scientific view from the highest human mysteries. Today, it is believed that the so-called mysteries of the soul already include the mystery of the spirit, and by indulging in this misunderstanding, one will encounter the approval of many natural scientists and also many contemplators of the soul. I would like to begin by saying that the spiritual science referred to in these lectures stands in a peculiar relationship to the scientific and philosophical world views. Those of you who have been attending these lectures for years now know how I have emphasized again and again that the spiritual science I represent is not in the least at odds with modern scientific research, but on the contrary, is fully grounded in this research, and precisely because it stands more firmly on scientific ground than the scientific worldview itself, it feels compelled to rise from the mere observation of nature and its life to the observation of real spiritual life. The scientific view of the world alone, which, we may already say, has become second nature to a large part of our contemporaries, we may well say, has become second nature to a large part of our contemporaries, which — quite rightly, in fact — carries the thoughts, ideas, even the habits of feeling and the cognitive drives of the present, this view of the world, even in its most refined representatives, behaves in such a way that spiritual science finds it extremely difficult to meet with any understanding among its contemporaries. I would like to say a few introductory words about this, because it will be necessary for our further consideration.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Es soll heute gezeigt werden, daß diese Gliederung des Menschen bloß nach Leib und Seele zu den schwierigsten Mißverständnissen führen muß, welche eine wirklich wissenschaftliche Betrachtung eigentlich ablenken von den höchsten Menschenrätseln. Man glaubt heute, daß in den sogenannten Seelenrätseln das Geisträtsel schon eingeschlossen ist, und man wird, indem man sich diesem Mißverständnisse hingibt, gerade auf den Beifall mancher naturwissenschaftlicher Weltbetrachter und auch mancher Seelenbetrachter stoßen können. Es steht überhaupt, das möchte ich einleitungsweise vorausschicken, die in diesen Vorträgen gemeinte Geisteswissenschaft in einem eigentümlichen Verhältnis zur naturwissenschaftlichen und auch zur philosophischen Weltbetrachtung. Diejenigen der verehrten Zuhörer, welche nun schon seit Jahren bei diesen Vorträgen anwesend waren, wissen, wie ich immer wieder und wieder betont habe, daß die von mir vertretene Geisteswissenschaft nicht im allergeringsten in irgendeinen Zwiespalt kommt mit der modernen naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung, daß sie im Gegenteil überall voll auf dem Boden dieser Forschung steht, und gerade weil sie mehr als die naturwissenschaftliche Weltanschauung selbst auf naturwissenschaftlichem Boden steht, sieht sie sich genötigt, aufzusteigen von der bloßen Betrachtung der Natur und ihres Lebens zu der Betrachtung des wirklichen Geistlebens. Allein die naturwissenschaftliche Weltbetrachtung, die ja einem großen Teil unserer Zeitgenossen, wir dürfen es schon sagen, geradezu in Fleisch und Blut übergegangen ist, die - und zwar durchaus mit einem gewissen Recht — die Gedanken, Ideen, auch die Empfindungsgewohnheiten, die Erkenntnistriebe der Gegenwart trägt, diese Weltbetrachtung verhält sich auch in ihren auserlesensten Vertretern in einer solchen Art, daß die Geisteswissenschaft es außerordentlich schwer hat, irgendwie auf Verständnis bei den Zeitgenossen zu stoßen. 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