{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1921-06-04_02/p045","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what anthroposophy basically wants. It is the way to meet natural science. Anyone who wants to fight anthroposophy from a scientific point of view or, following on from science, from a philosophical point of view, is tilting at windmills, because anthroposophy addresses everything that science legitimately brings up; it can only accommodate what can be achieved through such science and philosophy through full knowledge. But this full realization was not wanted. Over a long period of time, the newer spiritual life and the newer life of civilization has brought about what has become known in recent times as agnosticism. Again and again, those thinkers who did not want to come to a further development of thinking, who did not want to enter into the world of the imaginative, inspired and intuitive, spoke of an ignoramus and thus presented something to people - which is significant - that must be considered as something unrecognizable and incomprehensible. But because man always knows that he is spirit, he should actually be able to distinguish the spiritual origin from nebulous mysticism and the like. The cause of all that is literally superstition in the various areas of life does not lie in anthroposophy, which strives for clarity and exact natural science, but the origin of it lies in ignorabimus, in agnosticism. These created the “foggy” mysticism. It is precisely the ignorabimus that leads to agnosticism, because man must continually seek the spirit. All nebulous movements emanate from the ignorabimus and agnosticism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. 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Wer vom naturwissenschaftlichen Standpunkte aus oder - an die Naturwissenschaft anschließend - vom philosophischen Standpunkte aus Anthroposophie bekämpfen will, kämpft gegen Windmühlen, denn auf all das, was von Naturwissenschaft in berechtigter Weise vorgebracht wird, geht Anthroposophie ein; da kann sie dem, was durch eine solche Naturwissenschaft und eine solche Philosophie errungen werden kann, durch volle Erkenntnis nur entgegenkommen. Man hat diese volle Erkenntnis aber nicht gewollt. Durch lange Zeiten hindurch hat es das neuere Geistesleben, das neuere Zivilisationsleben zu dem gebracht, was da bekannt geworden ist in der letzten Zeit als Agnostizismus. Immer wieder und wieder haben diejenigen Denker, die nicht zu einer Fortbildung des Denkens kommen wollten, die sich nicht in die Welt des Imaginativen, Inspirierten und Intuitiven begeben wollten, von einem Ignorabimus geredet und damit etwas vor die Menschen so hingestellt - was eben bezeichnend ist -, daß es als ein Nicht-Erkennbares, Nicht-Durchschaubares gelten muß. Weil aber der Mensch immerfort weiß, ich bin Geist, ich bin Seele, so müßte er eigentlich in der Lage sein, den geistigen Ursprung zu unterscheiden von der nebulosen Mystik und dergleichen. Von alledem, was im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Aberglaube ist auf den verschiedenen Gebieten des Lebens, von alledem liegt die Ursache nicht in der nach Klarheit trachtenden, nach exakter Naturwissenschaft trachtenden Anthroposophie, sondern der Ursprung von dem liegt bei dem Ignorabimus, in dem Agnostizismus. Diese schufen den «faseligen» Mystizismus. Gerade das Ignorabimus führt zum Agnostizismus, weil der Mensch den Geist immerfort suchen muß. 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