{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 75/1922-05-11/p066","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This is where things start to get really serious. What is social agnosticism? It arises from the fact that we apply the observation that we have learned to apply correctly to external, natural phenomena, and that we now also want to apply this trained observation to social phenomena. This is where the various compromise theories in social science and sociology come from – in fact, all the theories about the conception of social life that we have seen arise. This is where the approach to the conception of social life that starts from the natural sciences comes from, but which must therefore disregard everything cognizable, everything that is alienated from thought and only present in the life of instincts. The extreme case of this occurred in Marxism, which regards everything that is spiritual as an ideology and only wants to see the impulses of social life realized if these impulses develop out of the instinctive, which belongs to agnosticism. Class consciousness is actually nothing more than the sum of all that is not rooted in a knowledge of man, but that comes from the instincts - only it must be recognized by those who develop such instincts in certain life circumstances.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Er entsteht dadurch, daß wir diejenige Beobachtung, die wir gelernt haben, mit Recht anzuwenden auf die äußeren, natürlichen Phänomene, daß wir diese uns angeschulte Beobachtung nun auch auf die sozialen Phänomene anwenden wollen. Da kommen dann die verschiedenen Kompromißtheorien in der Sozialwissenschaft und in der Soziologie herauf - überhaupt all die Theorien über die Auffassung des sozialen Lebens, die wir haben entstehen sehen. Da kommt dann dasjenige herauf, was in der Auffassung des sozialen Lebens naturwissenschaftlich ansetzt, was aber deshalb absehen muß von allem Erkennbaren, was sich dem Gedanken entfremdet und was nur im Instinktleben vorhanden ist. Das äußerste Extrem ist dann im Marxismus aufgetreten, der in alledem, was geistig ist, eine Ideologie sieht und der die Impulse des sozialen Lebens nur dann verwirklicht sehen will, wenn sich diese Impulse aus dem Instinktiven heraus entwickeln, das dem Agnostizismus angehört. 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