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

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This way of shining light on legal life in a social, moral, and liberal way must continue if we want to find concepts that reflect reality. There is a simple means—if there were a simple means—that would be very helpful if, in its radical form, an attempt were made to show somewhere how the concepts of ordinary consciousness, which appear so magnificent in the field of natural science, are incapable of intervening in moral and social life. One would only need to attempt to assemble a parliament of people who are great in the field of philosophical reflection on the world, using concepts that are taken only from ordinary consciousness, which is also called scientific consciousness. Such a parliament would be best suited to ruin the community to which it belongs in the shortest possible time, because such a parliament would only see the impulses that are coming to an end.

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