6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

GA 72/1917-11-30/p012 ·1917-11-30 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Now I would like to start from something that is heard very often today. Today, people's judgment is being challenged in many different ways by the tragic, catastrophic events that have befallen the whole of humanity on earth—one can already say that today—to form an opinion about this or that which the great, deeply incisive, sad events bring. One person needs to form an opinion about this or that which the sad events bring, because of their position and profession; another will form an opinion purely out of the goodness of their heart, out of sympathy with the fate of the whole of humanity. And it is precisely from these significant, profoundly dramatic events that the need has arisen for some to form an opinion about what we can broadly call the social life of humanity, the life of humanity in human society itself.

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