{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77b/1921-08-26/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Dear attendees,A very serious philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, spoke from his deepest insight the sentence: What kind of philosophy you choose depends on what kind of person you are. - For a philosophy that wants to talk about moral and ethical, moral-social aspects from its own field, such a sentence is, if you look more closely, downright devastating. For if, in its highest realizations, which are supposed to be the philosophical ones, one only reflects what one already is as a moral and social human being, then philosophy, world view, cannot possibly provide impulses for morality and the social. And anyone who takes such a sentence seriously will have to ask themselves the important question: How can knowledge, how can a body of knowledge have any kind of impelling effect on the moral, on the social life? For in our time, scientific thinking, which permeates all the life forces of human beings, would indeed like to have a certain authoritative effect on the moral and social life. This question seems to me to have a very special significance for our time, and to an even greater extent for anthroposophically oriented spiritual science. For anthroposophically oriented spiritual science wants to be an active force in life. And how could it become one if it could not find any impulses for morality, for social life, which arguably include the greatest problems of our present time. Again and again, however, one is referred to the special nature of today's scientific spirit when such a question is raised.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. Anthroposophy as a Moral Impulse and a Creative Social Force","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-08-26","location":null,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p003","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":"Art and Anthroposophy The Goetheanum Impulse: Summer Art Course 1921","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077b/English/SOL2024/19210826a01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p003"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p003","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 77b/1921-08-26/p003","passage_number":3,"text":"Meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden! Ein sehr ernster Philosoph, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, sprach aus seiner tiefsten Erkenntnis heraus den Satz: Welche Art von Philosophie man wähle, das hängt davon ab, was man für ein Mensch ist. - Für eine Philosophie, welche sprechen will über sittliche und moralische, moral-soziale Gesichtspunkte von ihrem eigenen Felde aus, ist, wenn man genauer zusieht, ein solcher Satz geradezu vernichtend. Denn, wenn man gewissermaßen in seinen höchsten Erkenntnissen — das sollen ja die philosophischen sein — nur widerspiegelt dasjenige, was man als sittlicher und sozialer Mensch schon ist, dann kann ja Philosophie, Weltanschauung, unmöglich ihrerseits Impulse für die Sittlichkeit und das Soziale abgeben. Und derjenige, der einen solchen Satz genügend ernst zu nehmen weiß, wird gerade von ihm ausgehend sich die bedeutsame Frage stellen müssen: Wie kann Erkenntnis, wie kann ein Wissen irgendwie impulsierend wirken für das sittliche, für das soziale Leben? Denn in unserer Zeit möchte ja das wissenschaftliche Denken, das alle Lebenskräfte der Menschen durchdringt, durchaus auch für das sittliche und soziale Leben in einer gewissen Weise autoritativ wirken. Für unsere Zeit also scheint mir diese Frage eine ganz besondere Bedeutung zu haben, und für anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft hat sie diese Bedeutung noch in erhöhtem Maße. Denn anthroposophisch orientierte Geisteswissenschaft will eine wirkende Kraft im Leben sein. Und wie sollte sie das werden, wenn sie nicht irgendwelche Impulse finden könnte für die Sittlichkeit, für das soziale Leben, die wohl die größten Probleme unserer heutigen Gegenwart einschließen. Immer wieder und wiederum aber wird man auf die besondere Natur des heutigen Wissenschaftsgeistes gewiesen, wenn man solch eine Frage aufwirft.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":262,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p003"}],"english":["GA 77b/1921-08-26/p003"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":262,"en_words":254,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6068,"original_word_count":6042,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Art and Anthroposophy The Goetheanum Impulse: Summer Art Course 1921","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077b/English/SOL2024/19210826a01.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. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 77b/1921-08-26/p003"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}