{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1915-11-25/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We can certainly say, esteemed attendees, that Fichte sought the human ego in its power, in its self-creative activity, but he remained - and because a greatest is boldly striven for, this greatest - I would say — itself the error of its virtue, it has its one-sidedness. Fichte stopped at this self-creative of the ego at something, so that one must say, at the point where he stopped, because the human soul actually creates itself only as a knowing being. It is therefore characteristic that Fichte calls what he has created as philosophy, as a world view, the theory of knowledge. The way Fichte grasps this self-creative I is actually only the knowing human being. But for us it is the path that matters, not a dogma, not an absolute truth, but the search for the German national soul. One would like to say: All that is spread out in this human nature, in that it experiences the whole fullness of the world of feeling, that the whole of outer nature is mirrored in it, all that is formed in the totality of the human inner soul life, with its deep pain, its high bliss and deep suffering, it is not directly explainable in the way in which the self-creative I is active in Fichte. The only thing that can be explained is – I would like to say – the knowing I. If man were to stand in the world as a knower, as a mere recognizer, if man's only task in the world were to have knowledge, then it would be as Fichte thought. But we see a wonderful development of strength in the fact that, on the one hand, all thinking, all research, all reflection is devoted to incorporating this one impulse into the world view of German idealism. Even if Fichte believed that he was answering all the riddles of the world, he did not answer them in their entirety, but he did show the one thing: How does man, as a cognizer, as a knower, as one who investigates the world, stand before himself? And how is he, as a knowing human being, connected to the sources of existence? To place this nuance in the world view of German idealism was, after all, Johann Gottlieb Fichte's task.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The World View Of German Idealism. 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So wie Fichte dieses selbstschöpferische Ich erfasst, so ist es eigentlich nur der wissende Mensch. Aber uns kommt es auf den Weg an, nicht auf ein Dogma, nicht auf ein absolut Richtiges, sondern auf das Suchen der deutschen Volksseele. Man möchte sagen: All dasjenige, was in dieser Menschennatur ausgebreitet dadurch ist, dass sie die ganze Fülle der Empfindungswelt erlebt, das sich in ihr die ganze äußere Natur spiegelt, all dasjenige, was sich in der Gesamtheit des menschlichen inneren Seelenlebens, mit seinem tiefen Schmerze, seiner hohen Beseligung und tiefem Leid ausgestaltet, es ist nicht unmittelbar zu erklären auf dem Wege, auf dem das selbstschöpferische Ich bei Fichte tätig ist. Da ist nur zu erklären - ich möchte sagen - das wissende Ich. Wenn der Mensch in der Welt dastehen würde als ein Wissender, als ein bloß Erkennender, wenn Wissen zu haben des Menschen einzige Weltaufgabe wäre, dann wäre das so, wie Fichte sich gedacht hat. Aber wir sehen gerade darin eine wunderbare Kraftentwicklung, dass nach einer Seite hin alles Denken, alles Forschen, alles Sinnen aufgewendet wird, um diesen einen Impuls in das Weltbild des Deutschen Idealismus hineinzustellen. Hat Fichte auch geglaubt, er beantworte alle Weltenrätsel, so hat er, wenn er diese auch nicht in ihrem ganzen Umfange beantwortet hat, das eine aufgezeigt: Wie steht der Mensch als ein Erkennender, als ein Wissender, als ein solcher, der über die Welt nachforscht, vor sich selbst da? Und wie hängt er als wissender Mensch mit den Quellen des Daseins zusammen? 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