{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-25/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And if we ascend to the Western peoples of Europe, and consider French culture from this point of view, we find expressed in it - I can only describe these things symptomatically today, by placing individual personalities before you as the living symptoms of historical development. If we look at this culture, we find a man like Cartesius, like Descartes, at the beginning of the seventeenth century, shaping into a world picture, I might say, the very essence of this culture. And if we engage with this world view, if we ask ourselves: what forces in the human soul shape this world view, in contrast to the forces of the sentient soul, which have just been cited for the Italian world view? We find that it is the powers of the intellectual soul or the soul of feeling. Just as I might say that the Italian conception of the world is supposed to present to the human soul what I might call the purely sensuous nature, so the conception of the world of the scientific intellect, or what we may here call purely rationalistic judgments about the world, is supposed to form a conception of the world. The human mind, which is so directed to the finite in the human conception of the world precisely because it is placed in the finite human being, is cultivated by Cartesius: What are the sources of your certainty? How can you say something certain about that which is true, which is truthful, real? And because he draws from the sources of thought, from the rationality of human beings, Cartesius, Descartes, develops rationalism as - I would say - the characteristic expression of the French national soul. This intellect first of all attaches itself to that which is immediately present: to the human self itself, to the inner personality. It attempts to attain certainty of life and the world from this inner personality, from that power which in turn is most intimately connected with this personality. “I think, therefore I am!” the world-famous saying of Descartes. Man assures himself of his existence by becoming aware of his mind at work within him. He cannot doubt his mind. Therefore, he can find in his mind the sources of certainty that can be given to him.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Und wenn wir uns auf dieses Weltbild einlassen, wenn wir uns fragen: Welche Kräfte in der menschlichen Seele sind es, die dieses Weltenbild formen, im Gegensatz zu den Kräften der Empfindungsseele, die gerade für das italienische Weltenbild angeführt worden sind? So finden wir: Es sind die Kräfte der Verstandes- oder Gemütsseele. Wie da - ich möchte sagen - durch die anderen Seelenkräfte rein hingestellte Sinnlichkeit durch das italienische Weltenbild hingestellt werden soll vor die menschliche Seele, so soll dasjenige, was der wissenschaftliche Verstand, das - wir dürfen hier den Ausdruck gebrauchen - rein rationalistische Urteilen über die Welt zu sagen hat, das soll hier ein Weltenbild bilden. Der Verstand, der eben gerade dadurch, dass er in den endlichen Menschen hineingestellt ist, so sehr auf das Endliche der menschlichen Weltauffassung gerichtet ist, dieser menschliche Verstand wird gepflegt von Cartesius: Welches sind die Quellen deiner Gewissheit? Wodurch kannst du etwas Sicheres sagen über dasjenige, was wahr ist, was wahrhaftig, wirklich ist? - Und weil er aus den Quellen des Gedankens herausschöpft, aus der Rationalität der Menschen herausschöpft, bildet Cartesius, bildet Descartes den Rationalismus heraus als - ich möchte sagen - den charakteristischen Ausdruck der französischen Volksseelenwesenheit. Dieser Verstand, er heftet sich zunächst an dasjenige an, was ihm unmittelbar vorliegt: an das menschliche Selbst selber, an die innere Persönlichkeit. Er versucht, aus dieser innerlichen Persönlichkeit heraus, aus derjenigen Kraft, die am innigsten wiederum mit dieser Persönlichkeit verknüpft ist, Lebens- und Weltengewissheit zu erlangen. «Ich denke, also bin ich!», der weltberühmte Ausspruch des Descartes. Der Mensch vergewissert sich von seinem Sein dadurch, dass er gewahr wird seinen in ihm wirkenden Verstand. Er kann nicht an seinem Verstand zweifeln. 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