{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 76/1921-04-04/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As long as a reality within us motivates our actions, our actions cannot be free. Therefore no instinctive action, no traditional action, no action under a habit is really free, but only an action that can follow the images that weave in pure thinking. As soon as you follow a reality, you are pushed. If you want to be free, you must include the unreal in your will. When you bump into something, you feel that the object has an effect on you. When you perform an act under an instinct, under an urge, you must feel that there is something pushing, that there is no freedom. But when you stand in front of a mirror, see the image in the mirror, you will be clear about the fact that the mirror image can never give you a slap in the face, that the mirror image can never push you. The image cannot do anything on its own. It is he who must act, who must act when he confronts this image. But since the image does nothing, the act then becomes a free act. Only a thinking that is not rooted in reality, but is pure image, can motivate a free act. That is why the problem of freedom is the problem of modern thinking, of pure thinking. But in this thinking, one is standing in a world of images.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Wenn Sie aber vor einen Spiegel treten, das Bild im Spiegel sehen, so werden Sie sich klar sein darüber, daß das Spiegelbild Ihnen niemals eine Ohrfeige geben kann, daß das Spiegelbild Ihnen niemals einen Stoß geben kann. Das Bild kann nichts machen von sich aus. Der muß machen, der muß handeln, der diesem Bilde gegenübertritt. Da aber das Bild nichts macht, so wird die Handlung dann zu einer freien Handlung. So kann nur ein Denken, das nicht im Realen wurzelt, sondern das reines Bild ist, ein freies Handeln motivieren. Deshalb erlauscht man an dem Problem der Freiheit das Problem des modernen Denkens, des reinen Denkens. 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