{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-25/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is characteristic that the emergence of the so-called pragmatism – this name was coined in England and more recently in America – is the latest form of the world view prevailing there. What is this pragmatism? It asks: Yes, to what extent can a person, who wants to approach truth through thought, arrive at the truth? It was felt quite intensely that one cannot actually educate oneself with one's soul powers through mere thoughts. Yes, but what are mere thoughts? What are thoughts that a person can form when he looks at phenomena? Is there a world of thoughts that one could say are real? Man goes through the world, so they say, he looks at things. He thinks about them. Is there somehow a power that forms the truth in man? So pragmatism asks. - No, man cannot find such an external power. But man forms concepts, and he can then have them. How can he have them? In such a way that they enable him to summarize the phenomena of the world in a purposeful way. This pragmatism does not seek some background of a source of truth, but it seeks to form such a conception that is expedient for summarizing the multiplicity of phenomena, thereby summarizing the multiplicity of phenomena in the best possible way. This is a concept that can be perceived because it serves to summarize the phenomena. There is no other source of truth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Gibt es denn eine Welt der Gedanken, von der man sagen könnte, sie wären wirklich? Der Mensch geht durch die Welt, so sagt man, er schaut die Dinge an. Er macht sich Gedanken darüber. Gibt es irgendwie eine Macht, welche die Wahrheit in dem Menschen formt? So fragt der Pragmatismus. - Nein, eine solche äußere Macht kann der Mensch nicht auffinden. Der Mensch bildet sich aber Begriffe, die kann er dann haben. Wie kann er sie haben? So, dass sie ihm möglich machen, die Erscheinungen der Welt zweckentsprechend zusammenzufassen. Nicht irgendeinen Hintergrund eines Wahrheitsquelles sucht dieser Pragmatismus, sondern er sucht nach der Formung solcher Vorstellung, die zweckmäßig ist, damit man die Vielheit der Erscheinungen zusammenfassen kann, dadurch am besten zweckentsprechend die Vielheit der Erscheinungen zusammenfassen kann. Das ist ein Begriff, den man ja auch wahrnehmen kann, weil er einem dient zum Zusammenfassen der Erscheinungen. 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