{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68c/1909-12-06/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, which is the truer? If you examine the two statements a little, you will notice a huge difference between the two. You just have to examine them according to certain characteristics that are not usually examined today. How does the millionaire take his point of view? Merely in terms of his own personality. He considers what would become of the work he has done up to a certain point in time; he judges entirely from himself and comes to the conclusion that the work he is giving up could be taken up by someone else at any moment, and therefore it must be the same for everyone. A very personal point of view confronts us here, which looks only at itself in order to arrive at the truth about the value and significance of the human being. And Herman Grimm, he does not judge anything about himself in this case, but about another personality. He judges in such a way that he completely disregards himself and is, so to speak, overwhelmed by something that is outside of him as a being. And that is precisely how he comes to judge the case, not making a general judgment from this individual case, but simply accepting the case as it is. We need only consider the difference in the two points of view to see what is characteristic in each case. In the one case, the value and significance of the human being is judged quite subjectively, quite personally, quite from one's own ego; in the other case, the ego is not involved at all. And if we really consider both statements, who could fail to feel that the one who judges impersonally, who disregards himself, allows himself to be overwhelmed, as it were, by the objective, has more to say about the value and significance of a human being than the one who judges quite subjectively, quite personally! This must be the natural feeling of everyone. Such a comparison shows that we must never say: point of view is just a point of view; but that there is a way of approaching the truth, of actually arriving at it in certain respects, if we try to fathom the truth by taking an impersonal approach. Or do we not feel that in certain respects, as Herman Grimm says, each person is irreplaceable? Not only great people are irreplaceable. Can the point of view of the American millionaire apply when one considers how irreplaceable a mother is for many a child, for example? Can one say that something can step into this gap to replace her? Oh, one will feel it as soon as one takes the point of view that there is a coming closer to the truth, even if there can only be an eternal striving for the pure, full truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXI. The Mission of Truth","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-12-06","location":null,"word_count":471,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68c/1909-12-06/p009","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":"Goethe and the Present","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068c/English/SOL2024/19091206p01.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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Ein ganz persönlicher Standpunkt tritt uns da entgegen, der nur auf sich sieht, um über die Frage nach dem Werte und der Bedeutung des Menschen zur Wahrheit zu kommen. Und Herman Grimm, er urteilt gar nichts über sich in diesem Falle, sondern über eine andere Persönlichkeit. Er urteilt so, dass er ganz von-sich selber absieht und sozusagen überwältigt ist von etwas, was außer ihm als ein Wesen sich befindet. Und dadurch kommt er gerade dazu, den Fall so zu beurteilen, dass er gar nicht von diesem Einzelfalle aus ein allgemeines Urteil fällt, sondern einfach den Fall hinnimmt, wie er ist. Wir brauchen nur die Verschiedenheit des Standpunktes beider in Betracht zu ziehen, und wir werden sehen, worin das Charakteristische in dem einen und in dem anderen Falle liegt. Im einen Falle wird ganz subjektiv, ganz persönlich, ganz aus der eigenen Ichheit heraus über den Wert und die Bedeutung des Menschen geurteilt; im anderen Falle spielt die Ichheit gar nicht mit. Und wer sollte nicht fühlen, wenn er wirklich eingeht auf beide Aussprüche, dass der eine der Urteiler, der unpersönlich urteilt, der von sich absieht, sich gleichsam überwältigen lässt durch das Objektive, dass der über den Wert und die Bedeutung eines Menschen mehr zu sagen hat als derjenige, der ganz subjektiv, ganz persönlich urteilt! Das muss einem jeden sein natürliches Gefühl geben. Solch ein Vergleich zeigt, dass wir niemals sagen dürfen: Standpunkt ist eben Standpunkt; sondern dass es ein Sich-Nähern der Wahrheit gibt, ein wirkliches Erreichen in gewisser Beziehung auf dem Wege hin zur Wahrheit, wenn wir versuchen, die Wahrheit so zu ergründen, dass wir unpersönlich zu Werke gehen. Oder fühlt man nicht etwa, dass in einer gewissen Beziehung von jedem Menschen im Sinne Herman Grimms gesagt werden muss, er ist unersetzlich? Nicht bloß große Menschen sind unersetzlich. Kann der Standpunkt des amerikanischen Millionärs gelten, wenn man denkt, wie unersetzlich für manches Kind zum Beispiel die Mutter ist? Darf man sagen, dass in diese Lücke etwas eintreten könne, was sie ersetzt? Oh, man wird es schon fühlen, sobald man den Standpunkt einnimmt, dass es ein Näherkommen der Wahrheit gibt, wenn es auch nur ein ewiges Streben nach der reinen, vollen Wahrheit geben kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":468,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-12-06/p009"}],"english":["GA 68c/1909-12-06/p009"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":468,"en_words":471,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10593,"original_word_count":10222,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Goethe and the Present","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068c/English/SOL2024/19091206p01.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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