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The spiritual researcher can, precisely because he views the world from a spiritual point of view, can fully empathize with every kind of contradiction, especially those raised from the natural science side. And above all, the opinion should not be entertained that the spiritual researcher despises the natural science point of view. On the contrary – and I have emphasized this time and again in earlier lectures here – on the contrary, the spiritual researcher acknowledges the great, the tremendous achievements for all human work and for all human knowledge that natural science has incorporated into human development over the last few centuries since the dawn of modern times. Indeed, the spiritual researcher even views his relationship to natural science in the following way. Speaking in the abstract – it could be presented here in detail, but that is probably not necessary today – speaking in the abstract, I say, one recognizes that in a certain time that which today is called natural scientific knowledge of the external material world had to arise. Anyone who delves into the history of natural science, connecting with the great names of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and so on, will realize how different what was called natural science before these names came about was from what we now call the scientific approach to the world. This scientific approach has now, over the course of three to four centuries, provided humanity with a wealth of knowledge that has had a profound and far-reaching impact on all of life. And it is easy to see, if you just take a little understanding look at this life as it has developed over the last three to four centuries, the significance that scientific achievements have for the ideal and material side of life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. 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Es ist ja selbstverständlich, dass die Geltendmachung solcher Erkenntnisse in unserer Gegenwart noch - man möchte sagen - von allen Seiten Widerspruch erfahren muss. Denn dasjenige, was damit gesagt wird, das widerspricht den Denkgewohnheiten, die heute durchaus - und man darf sogar sagen, wenn man die Geschichte der letzten Jahrhunderte überblickt, in ganz begreiflicher Weise - den weit, weitaus größten Teil der Menschen beherrschen müssen. Insbesondere erhebt sich zunächst ein völliger Widerspruch von naturwissenschaftlicher Seite her. Nun steht der Geistesforscher zu diesem Widerspruch, zu dieser Gegnerschaft von naturwissenschaftlicher Seite her keineswegs so, dass er nur der menschlichen Beschränktheit oder einer ganz vertrockneten Logik zuschreiben würde, dass solcher Widerspruch, solche Gegnerschaft vorhanden ist, sondern er begreift es gerade ganz gut, dass solche Gegnerschaft möglich ist. Es kann der Geistesforscher gerade dadurch, dass er von einem geistigen Gesichtspunkte aus die Welt anschaut, er kann sich voll hineinversetzen in jede Art von Widerspruch, der insbesondere von naturwissenschaftlicher Seite erhoben wird. Und vor allen Dingen sollte nicht die Meinung gehegt werden, dass der Geistesforscher ein Verächter der naturwissenschaftlichen Anschauung sei. Im Gegenteil - und das habe ich ja bei früheren Vorträgen hier schon immer wieder und wiederum hervorgehoben -, im Gegenteil der Geistesforscher erkennt gerade die großen, die gewaltigen Errungenschaften für alle menschliche Arbeit und für alles menschliche Erkennen an, welche die Naturwissenschaft im Laufe der letzten Jahrhunderte seit der Morgenröte der neueren Zeiten der menschlichen Entwicklung einverleibt hat. Ja, der Geistesforscher betrachtet sogar sein Verhältnis zur Naturwissenschaft in folgender Art. Abstrakt gesprochen - es könnte ja im Einzelnen hier dargelegt werden, allein das ist wohl heute nicht nötig — abstrakt gesprochen, sage ich, erkennt man, dass in einer gewissen Zeit dasjenige, was man heute naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnis der äußeren materiellen Welt nennt, auftreten musste. Derjenige, der sich einlässt auf dasjenige, was vorangegangen ist der Naturwissenschaft, die sich an die großen Namen Kopernikus, Galilei, Kepler und so weiter anknüpft, der weiß, wie verschieden dasjenige war, was vor der Zeit, die sich an diese Namen anknüpft, Naturwissenschaft genannt wurde, von dem, was wir jetzt naturwissenschaftliche Betrachtungsweise der Welt nennen. Diese naturwissenschaftliche Betrachtungsweise, sie hat nun wirklich im Laufe von drei bis vier Jahrhunderten der Menschheit einen Erkenntnisschatz erarbeitet, welcher tief, tief eingriff in das ganze Leben. Und leicht kann man einsehen, wenn man nur ein bisschen verständig dieses Leben, wie es sich entwickelt hat in den letzten drei bis vier Jahrhunderten, überblickt, welche Bedeutung für die ideelle und materielle Seite des Lebens die naturwissenschaftlichen Errungenschaften haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":421,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/70b/1916-01-14/p007"}],"english":["GA 70b/1916-01-14/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":421,"en_words":418,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":11706,"original_word_count":11292,"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/SOL2024/19160114p01.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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