{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-25/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The most alien thing to the times in which Kant lived and the culture from which Kant emerged would be the British view of today, as expressed in the British world view: that truth should have no other source [than the expediency for which external phenomena are to be summarized]. For absolutely valuable, so that no doubt, nothing that could somehow take away certainty, should approach it, absolutely certain is that which makes human life valuable, although it is not an external sensual reality, that is the idea, that is the ideal. This world view felt that ideas and ideals reach into the human soul and give the human soul the highest value. No matter whether the human soul attains such a high value from nature or from some other source, it attains the highest value through the fact that ideas can be present in it. And now, more or less unconsciously, Kant was already living with the impulse to eliminate everything that did not want to recognize the absolute, unconditional validity of the ideas, their highest value for the human soul. He found that A science has been developed, a world view has emerged that is based on the sensory world. But man cannot, with the powers that come from his soul, grasp this sensual world view in such a way that he can get to its direct sources — if I may use the pedantic word, but it is from Kant himself —, to the “thing in itself”. So Kant tried to get to the bottom of this sensuality, this external reality, as it presents itself to the human senses, to bring clarity to it. He examines the human soul life in his own way. He finds: What presents itself as the sensory world is not the immediate reality. And the human soul is not at all able to penetrate into the immediate reality with the powers it has. Only through those forces that are the forces of the idea, the forces of the ideal, can it experience reality directly within itself. And so we see the remarkable thing about Kant: that he does not, as is often believed, want to present a world view of doubt, of groundlessness, of non-recognition, but that he was seeking a world view that would remove all doubt by making it clear that we cannot know anything about the senses, but because we cannot know anything, we can give all the more to the fact that what projects into our soul life as an idea, as an ideal, has an unconditional value. Sensuality must not disturb us in our contemplation of the absolutely valuable, the idea, the ideal, by the certainty it has. Kant does not present a world view of doubt, but a world view that seeks to eliminate doubt from the world. However, he does come to say that he must fight knowledge. Kant says it in order to make room for faith. At first, he only believes that a kind of faith can unfold for that which enters the human soul in an idealized way; but that is precisely what characterizes him: the ideal, the idea, is so valuable to him that he himself dethrones knowledge for its sake, in order to provide this ideal with the right throne, the right world standing.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The World View Of German Idealism. 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Von der Idee, von dem Ideal fühlte diese Weltanschauung, dass sie hereinragen in die menschliche Seele und der menschlichen Seele den höchsten Wert geben. Mag sie, diese menschliche Seele, aus der Natur oder irgendwo anders her noch einen so hohen Wert erlangen, den höchsten Wert erlangt die Menschenseele dadurch, dass in ihr die Ideen anwesend sein können. Und nun lebte mehr oder weniger unbewusst in Kant schon der Impuls, aus dem Wege zu schaffen alles dasjenige, was den Ideen ihre absolute, ihre unbedingte Gültigkeit, ihren höchsten Wert für das menschliche Seelenleben nicht zuerkennen wollte. Da fand er denn: Eine Wissenschaft ist heraufgebildet worden, ein Weltbild ist entstanden, das nach der Sinnenwelt hingerichtet ist. Aber der Mensch kann mit den Kräften - so sagt sich Kant -, die da aus seiner Seele kommen, dieses sinnliche Weltenbild nicht so erfassen, dass er an seine unmittelbaren Quellen — wenn ich das pedantische Wort gebrauchen darf, aber es ist von Kant selber -, [dass er an] das «Ding an Sich» kommen kann. Also suchte Kant dazu zu kommen, diese Sinnlichkeit, diese äußere Wirklichkeit, wie sie sich den menschlichen Sinnen darbietet, zur Klarheit zu bringen. Er untersucht in seiner Art das menschliche Seelenleben. Er findet: Das, was sich da als Sinnenwelt ausbreitet, das ist nicht die unmittelbare Wirklichkeit. Und die menschliche Seele vermag überhaupt nicht mit den Kräften, die sie hat, in die unmittelbare Wirklichkeit einzudringen. Einzig und allein mit denjenigen Kräften vermag sie in sich ein unmittelbar Wirkliches zu erleben, die die Kräfte der Idee, die Kräfte der Ideale sind. Und so sehen wir bei Kant das Merkwürdige, dass er eben nicht, wie man oftmals glaubt, eine Weltanschauung des Zweifels, der Haltlosigkeit, des Nichterkennens hinstellen will, sondern dass er gerade eine Weltanschauung suchte, welche allen Zweifel hinwegschafft dadurch, dass sie klarmacht: Über die Sinnlichkeit kann man nichts wissen, aber weil man nichts wissen kann, so kann man umso mehr darauf geben, dass dasjenige, was in unser Seelenleben hereinragt als Idee, als Ideal, einen unbedingten Wert hat. Die Sinnlichkeit darf uns nicht durch die Gewissheit, die sie hat, stören in dem Anschauen des absolut Wertvollen, der Idee, des Ideals. Nicht eine Weltanschauung des Zweifels stellt Kant hin, sondern eine Weltanschauung, die den Zweifel gerade aus der Welt schaffen will. Allerdings kommt er dazu, sagen zu müssen, er müsse das Wissen bekämpfen. Kant sagt es, um für den Glauben Platz zu bekommen. Er glaubt zunächst nur, dass für dasjenige, was in ideenmäßiger Weise in die Menschenseele hereinragt, eine Art Glaube sich entfalten kann; aber das gerade ist das Charakteristische, dass ihm das Ideal, die Idee so wertvoll ist, dass er selbst um seinetwillen das Wissen entthront, um diesem Ideal den richtigen Thron, die richtige Weltengeltung zu verschaffen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":543,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1915-11-25/p035"}],"english":["GA 70b/1915-11-25/p035"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":543,"en_words":554,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":13536,"original_word_count":12814,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA070b/English/SOL2024/19151125p01.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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