{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 70b/1916-02-19/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The human mind still has the peculiarity of building the world as if it were externally mechanical. It is indeed the peculiarity of the mind that it is unable to penetrate the inner vitality of the world, that it shrinks back, as it were, from the inner vitality, and that it wants to construct everything. But this is particularly evident in Descartes, in Cartesius. And now we will draw attention to one particular way in which this world view of Descartes came about: I would say that it is the one-sided expression of intellectual life. Descartes looks at the world; and after he has given himself over to doubting everything (and this doubt is also, in turn, an expression of the intellectual way of looking at the world), he comes to saying to himself how he can form a world picture that has sensuality. Indeed, this world view becomes such that everything mechanical only wants to be included in it. The world appears as a great mechanism. And it is characteristic of this – I would say genuinely French – world view that Descartes explicitly states: we can only perceive soul in ourselves, as humans. Animals are moving machines. Descartes denies that animals, or indeed all of nature except for human beings, have souls. Animals are automatons.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. The World View Of German Idealism. A Consideration Regarding Our Fateful Times","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-02-19","location":null,"word_count":217,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/70b/1916-02-19/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","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/SOL2024/19160219p01.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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Descartes betrachtet die Welt; und nachdem er sich hingegeben hat allem Zweifel - und dieser Zweifel ist auch wiederum ein Ausdruck der verstandesmäßigen Weltbetrachtung -, kommt er darauf, sich zu sagen, wie er sich ein Weltenbild machen kann, das Sinnlichkeit hat. Ja, dieses Weltenbild wird so, dass alles Mechanische nur in dieses Weltenbild hereinwill. Wie ein großer Mechanismus erscheint die Welt. Und charakteristisch ist es in diesem - ich möchte sagen - echt französischen Weltenbild, dass Cartesius ausdrücklich behauptet: Seele können wir nur wahrnehmen in uns selber, als Menschen. Die Tiere sind bewegte Maschinen. Dem Tier, und überhaupt der ganzen [außermenschlichen] Natur spricht Descartes überhaupt die Seele ab. 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