{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77a/1921-07-27/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But that is only one of the cornerstones. The other cornerstone was provided not by a natural scientist but by a historian, the famous Leopold von Ranke. And again it was an Ignorabimus, a “We cannot and will not know!” Ranke, the great historian, tried with all objectivity to find his way into the course of human development that can be traced through historical documents. And he stated that what we see as the most far-reaching event in the course of the development of the earth, the event of the founding of Christianity, the appearance of Christ Jesus in the course of human development, reaches into this historical becoming. Ranke does not deny that this event was world-shaking in historical evolution; but he asserts that the historical approach must stop at the cause of the origin of Christianity, just as Du Bois-Reymond asserted that science must stop at the supersensible. That which flowed into historical development through the founder of Christianity – says Ranke, for example – belongs to the primal elements of historical becoming – so he expresses it – which methodical historical research cannot approach. Of course, many such primal elements could be pointed out. I have only emphasized the most important one for the Western world in the sense of Leopold von Ranke. That is the other cornerstone. It was erected for the reason that in the course of the 19th century, the education that scientific humanity has received over the last four to five centuries has also developed its powers in other scientific considerations. And even if Leopold von Ranke was far from combining his own historical perspective with natural science, it must be said that natural science, with its great and mighty triumphs and its rightful place in the modern intellectual development of humanity, has also asserted its authority in other fields. These had to, if I may say so, “resemble” it. And so, in essence, Leopold von Ranke's ignorabimus is nothing other than the historical answer to Du Bois-Reymond's scientific ignorabimus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Knowledge of Nature and Knowledge of the Mind","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-07-27","location":null,"word_count":337,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p011","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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Daß dieses Ereignis weltumwälzend war im geschichtlichen Werden, das leugnet Ranke auch nicht; daß aber geschichtliche Betrachtungsweise haltmachen müsse vor der Entstehungsursache des Christentums, das behauptet Ranke, wie auf der anderen Seite Du Bois-Reymond behauptete, daß Wissenschaft haltmachen müsse vor dem Übersinnlichen. Dasjenige, was durch den Begründer des Christentums in die geschichtliche Entwicklung eingeflossen ist — sagt etwa Ranke —, das gehört zu den Urelementen des geschichtlichen Werdens — so drückt er sich aus —, an die die methodische Geschichtsforschung nicht heranreichen kann. Selbstverständlich könnten noch viele solche Urelemente aufgezeigt werden. Ich habe nur das für das Abendland Wichtigste im Sinne Leopold von Rankes hier hervorgehoben. - Das ist der andere Eckpfeiler. Er wurde aufgerichtet aus dem Grunde, weil ja im Verlaufe des 19. Jahrhunderts die Erziehung, welche die wissenschaftliche Menschheit erhalten hat im Laufe der letzten vier bis fünf Jahrhunderte, ihre Kräfte auch entfaltet hat in den anderen wissenschaftlichen Betrachtungen. Und wenn auch selbstverständlich Leopold von Ranke weit entfernt war davon, seine eigene historische Anschauungsart mit der Naturwissenschaft zusammenzubringen, so muß man doch sagen: Naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnis mit ihren großen, ihren gewaltigen Triumphen, mit ihrer berechtigten Stellung in der neueren Geistesentwicklung der Menschheit, sie hat ihre Gewalt auch geltend gemacht auf den anderen Gebieten. Diese mußten, wenn ich so sagen darf, sich ihr «anähnlichen». Und so ist im Grunde genommen das Ignorabimus des Leopold von Ranke nichts anderes als die historische Antwort auf das naturwissenschaftliche Ignorabimus des Du Bois-Reymond.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":336,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p011"}],"english":["GA 77a/1921-07-27/p011"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":336,"en_words":337,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6886,"original_word_count":6580,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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