{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77a/1921-07-27/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But what has humanity as such achieved, in particular with regard to – if I may use Lessing's expression – the “education of humanity” through scientific thinking, through the characterized methodology and inner discipline? I would like to particularly point out what has actually been achieved in the course of more recent times. And if we want to appreciate and honor this in the right way, then we have to look back to older times in the development of humanity, to those times when there was not yet a scientific thinking in our present sense, when people did not draw such a strict, conceptual line between what man subjectively brought to the outer world and what is really objectively present in the outer world. Today, one need only take any literary work that wanted to have a scientific character and that still belongs to that older time, which did not have the scientific impact, and one will see how man was not yet able to really separate the subjective from the objective; but how he was also not able to develop something that is precisely one of the most important developmental forces of the latest phase of human history: full self-awareness, full human composure, that places itself in the universe and becomes more and more aware of itself as an individuality, as a personality in this universe. The growth of personality consciousness, the growth of the sense of self, the growth of composure, is what increases to the same extent that modern scientific consciousness arises. Man consolidates himself inwardly, one might say, in relation to all the forces with which he holds his personality together, precisely under the influence of this veneration of the principle of objectivity. Man becomes stronger inwardly as a personality, and his longing for free individuality grows to the same extent that scientific consciousness has developed in recent times. From this consideration alone, something can be inferred, which you will find confirmed when you penetrate into the now already somewhat widespread literature of our anthroposophical spiritual science. And what can follow from this consideration is this: the more man engages in the observation of the sense world and in the gradual processing of this sense world in a scientific way, the more he arrives at an inner consciousness of himself as I. With these two latter elements, that grows in man which securely places him as an I in his whole environment. This should be felt particularly by technicians, because one can develop a feeling there for how the human inner consciousness is changed by looking not only at the establishment of natural laws through observation, through experimentation, but at the weaving of natural laws into what one has to accomplish for the world in terms of instruments, tools, and entire undertakings. In this integration of natural laws into enterprise, in this integration of natural laws into reality, one can feel how human inner composure grows under the influence of a scientific way of thinking.","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":499,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p017","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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Und wenn man das in richtiger Weise schätzen und würdigen will, dann muß man zurückschauen in ältere Zeiten der Menschheitsentwicklung, in diejenigen Zeiten, in denen es noch nicht ein naturwissenschaftliches Denken in unserem heutigen Sinne gegeben hat, in denen man gar nicht eine so strenge, begriffliche Linie gezogen hat zwischen dem, was der Mensch subjektiv zu der Außenwelt hinzugebracht hat, und dem, was nun wirklich objektiv in der Außenwelt vorhanden ist. Man braucht heute nur irgendein Literaturwerk zu nehmen, das einen wissenschaftlichen Charakter haben wollte, und das noch jener älteren Zeit angehört, die nicht den naturwissenschaftlichen Einschlag hatte, so wird man sehen, wie der Mensch da noch nicht in der Lage war, das Subjektive von dem Objektiven wirklich zu trennen; aber wie er dafür auch nicht in der Lage war, etwas zu entwickeln, was gerade zur hauptsächlichsten Entwicklungskraft der neuesten Phase geschichtlicher Menschheitsentwicklung gehört: das ist das volle Ich-Bewußtsein, die volle menschliche Besonnenheit, die sich hineinstellt in das Weltenall und sich immer mehr und mehr bewußt wird, als eine Inidividualität, als eine Persönlichkeit in diesem Weltenall drinnenzustehen. Das Wachsen des Persönlichkeitsbewußtseins, das Wachsen des Ich-Gefühls, das Wachsen der Besonnenheit, das ist dasjenige, was zunimmt in demselben Maße, in dem das moderne naturwissenschaftliche Bewußtsein heraufzieht. Der Mensch konsolidiert sich innerlich, könnte man sagen, in bezug auf alle Kräfte, mit denen er seine Persönlichkeit zusammenhält gerade unter dem Einflusse dieser Verehrung des Objektivitätsprinzips. Der Mensch wird innerlich als Persönlichkeit stärker, und seine Sehnsucht nach freier Individualität wird größer in demselben Maße, in dem sich in der neuesten Zeit das naturwissenschaftliche Bewußtsein herausentwikkelt. Schon aus dieser Betrachtung kann etwas folgen, was Sie werden erhärtet finden, wenn Sie in die ja jetzt schon etwas verbreitete Literatur unserer anthroposophischen Geisteswissenschaft eindringen. Und das, was da aus dieser Betrachtung folgen kann, ist dieses, daß der Mensch umsomehr zu einem innerlichen Ich-Bewußtsein gelangt, je mehr er sich naturwissenschaftlich ergeht in der Beobachtung der Sinneswelt und in der allmählichen Bearbeitung dieser Sinneswelt. Mit diesen zwei letzteren Elementen wächst dasjenige im Menschen, was ihn sicher hineinstellt als ein Ich in seine ganze Umwelt. Insbesondere unter Technikern sollte dies gefühlt werden, weil man da eine Empfindung entwikkeln kann, wie das menschliche innere Bewußtsein ein anderes wird dadurch, daß man hinschaut nicht nur auf das Konstatieren der Naturgesetze durch Beobachtung, durch Experimentieren, sondern auf das Hineinverweben der Naturgesetze in das, was man für die Welt an Instrumenten, an Werkzeugen, an ganzen Unternehmungen zu leisten hat. In dieser Hineinstellung der Naturgesetze in Unternehmung, in dieser Hineinstellung der Naturgesetze in die Wirklichkeit, kann man es erfühlen, wie menschliche innere Besonnenheit gerade wächst unter dem Einflusse naturwissenschaftlicher Denkungsart.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":491,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p017"}],"english":["GA 77a/1921-07-27/p017"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":491,"en_words":499,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","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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