{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 73a/1920-03-25/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Analyze what in everyday life is called the will. I call your attention to the fact that most people lie to themselves about what they want. They get up every morning at a certain time. Do you believe that they want to do this in the true sense of the word? If you analyze the whole fact that is expressed in this getting up in the morning, then you come to wanting just as well or just as badly as if you say that the clock strikes 8 o'clock in the morning. That is a complex of facts when the clock strikes 8 o'clock. When a person's legs move out of bed, hands reach for this or that, then that is a different complex of facts. And that in one case we speak of automatism and in the other of will, my dear audience, is based only on an illusion or on a confused psychology. In truth, the human being is only placed in a position to speak of volition when he is approaching pure thinking and then, through pure thinking, rises to the comprehension of supersensible truths. Then the real volition is integrated or, I might say, poured into his organism – the volition that can truly be called volition. And all the impulses that are present in the traditions for a real will are by no means the result of the automatic activity that has almost become the habit of all people today, but rather from older times, when there was still - albeit in an atavistic way, more instinctively - a will that was independent of the usual automatism of life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Questions following Carl Unger's Lecture on “Anthroposophy and the Epistemological Foundations of the Natural Sciences”","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-03-25","location":null,"word_count":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/73a/1920-03-25/p010","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":"Scientific Disciplines and Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA073a/English/SOL2024/19200325p01.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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Ich mache Sie auf eine Tatsache aufmerksam, der gegenüber die meisten Menschen sich vorlügen, daß sie es wollen. Das ist: sie stehen jeden Morgen zu einer bestimmten Zeit auf. Glauben Sie, daß sie das wollen - im echten Sinne des Wortes? Wenn Sie den ganzen Tatbestand analysieren, der sich ausspricht in diesem Morgens-Aufstehen, dann kommen Sie ebensogut oder ebensoschlecht zum Wollen, wie wenn Sie von der Uhr sagen, daß sie morgens 8 Uhr schlägt. Das ist ein Tatsachenkomplex, wenn die Uhr 8 Uhr schlägt. Wenn sich eines Menschen Beine aus dem Bett bewegen, die Hände greifen nach diesem oder jenem, dann ist das ein anderer Komplex von Tatsachen. Und daß man in dem einen Falle von Automatismus, in dem andern Falle von Willen spricht, das, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, das beruht nur auf einer Illusion beziehungsweise auf einer konfusen Psychologie. In Wahrheit wird der Mensch erst in die Möglichkeit versetzt, von Wollen zu sprechen, wenn er sich gerade annähert dem reinen Denken und dann über das reine Denken sich zur Erfassung übersinnlicher Wahrheiten erhebt. Dann gliedert sich ein oder ergießt sich, möchte ich sagen, in seinen Organismus das wirkliche Wollen - das Wollen, das wirklich Wollen genannt werden kann. Und alles, was an Impulsen auch in den Traditionen da ist für ein wirkliches Wollen, ist durchaus nicht entsprungen aus der automatenhaften Tätigkeit, die heute fast zur Gewohnheit aller Menschen geworden ist, sondern aus älteren Zeiten, wo es noch - wenn auch auf atavistische Art, mehr instinktiv - ein vom gewöhnlichen Lebensautomatismus unabhängiges Wollen gegeben hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":268,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/73a/1920-03-25/p011"}],"english":["GA 73a/1920-03-25/p010"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":268,"en_words":274,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":1747,"original_word_count":1707,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Scientific Disciplines and Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA073a/English/SOL2024/19200325p01.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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