{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68c/1909-12-06/p033","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This Pandora also appears in Goethe as the wife of Epimetheus. But we see very clearly that Goethe takes what is an external action and elevates it into a spiritual world. We see the reflective soul of Epimetheus and see it connected with Pandora, that is to say, in this soul of Epimetheus lives that which is spread out in the world as wisdom, which is reflected upon as in a dream. The characterization of Epimetheus, who dreams wisdom, which is nothing other than Pandora herself when personified, is wonderful. He feels unsatisfied and weak, and then, in the further course of the drama, Goethe has Prometheus, the brother, confront Epimetheus. There Epimetheus raves about the [beloved, but also vanished, divine] Pandora, about the all-gifted Pandora. Goethe shows us that through this figure, worldly wisdom is illuminated to him, but worldly wisdom as it is grasped by man in reflection. What is this reflected truth like? It is abstract, uncreative, unproductive. Imagine that we could combine in our soul all knowledge about the entire world; but this knowledge would be unproductive if it were only reflected. Just as the wife of Epimetheus, just as Pandora, is endowed with the wisdom of the world but is unproductive. Prometheus, who has no sense for this Pandora, confronts Epimetheus; while Epimetheus raves about Pandora's magnificent hair, about how beautifully her foot moves – Prometheus says: Oh, I know how it is made. [I know how Pandora was made by Hephaestus, the blacksmith, and how she was brought to life by Zeus. He thinks only of the origin of the goddess, not of the beauty of what has come into being, what has been created, and so Pandora, who is otherwise unproductive, gives him the impetus for productivity. And this is what can come out of it as a reaction in him.] In Pandora's case, it is something mechanically put together, something that cannot be put into practice; something against which he asserts his saying:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XXXI. 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Er fühlt sich unbefriedigt und schwach, dann lässt im weiteren Verlauf des Dramas Goethe den Prometheus, den Bruder, dem Epimetheus gegenübertreten. Da schwärmt Epimetheus von der [geliebten, aber auch entschwundenen, göttlichen] Pandora, von der allbegabten Pandora. Goethe zeigt uns, dass ihm durch diese Gestalt die Weltenweisheit durchleuchtet, die Weltenweisheit aber, wie sie vom Menschen im Nachdenken erfasst wird. Wie ist diese nachgedachte Wahrheit? Abstrakt, unschöpferisch ist sie, unproduktiv. Denken Sie sich einmal, dass wir in der Seele vereinigen könnten alles Wissen über die gesamte Welt; aber unproduktiv wäre dieses Wissen, wenn es nur ein nachgedachtes wäre. Wie etwas, das mit der ganzen Weltenweisheit begabt ist, aber unproduktiv ist, so ist die Gattin des Epimetheus, so ist Pandora. Prometheus, der keinen Sinn hat für diese Pandora, tritt dem Epimetheus gegenüber; während Epimetheus von dem herrlichen Haare der Pandora schwärmt, während er davon schwärmt, wie der Fuß sich schön bewegt — da sagt Prometheus: Oh, ich weiß, wie das zubereitet ist. [Ich weiß, wie Pandora vom Hephaistos, dem Schmied, hergestellt worden und vom Zeus belebt ist. Er denkt nur an das Entstehen der Göttin, nicht an die Schönheit des Gewordenen, Geschaffenen und daher gibt die sonst unproduktive Pandora bei ihm den Anstoß zur Produktivität. Und diese ist es, die als Reaktion bei ihm herauskommen kann.] Sie ist bei Pandora etwas mechanisch Zusammengestelltes, etwas, was nicht in die Tat übergehen kann; etwas, wogegen er geltend macht seinen Spruch:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":324,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68c/1909-12-06/p033"}],"english":["GA 68c/1909-12-06/p033"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":324,"en_words":331,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","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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