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It must be said that we are now living in an age in which the split between knowledge and belief has led to a situation in which, whenever someone asserts something that they have believed and that subsequently turns out to be objectively untrue, they excuse themselves by saying that a person is entitled to assert what they believe to be the truth to the best of their knowledge and belief. My dear audience, this principle allows the possibility of every possible objective untruth entering into public life, and only by combating this principle can morality be brought into our social life, and into our business and economic life. Therefore, because I always want to make use of the spirit of truth that is necessary for anthroposophy on the one hand and for all of modern life on the other, I had to assert this spirit of truth in the face of what has occurred on the characterized side. I was interested in this as a cultural phenomenon, not as a personal matter, and as a cultural phenomenon it actually leads to that deeper concept of truth that we so urgently need today.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. 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Und dieser Grundsatz, er muß in unser sittliches Leben einziehen, denn wenn das sittliche Leben die Grundlage sein soll des Sozialen, dann muß die Sittlichkeit durchdringen die objektive und nicht bloß die subjektiv geglaubte Wahrheit, denn diese subjektiv geglaubte Wahrheit ist es nicht, die hinaus in das soziale Leben wirkt, sondern allein die objektiv erlebte Wahrheit. Da muß man schon sagen: Wir leben heute in dem Zeitalter, in dem die Spaltung zwischen Wissen und Glauben dazu geführt hat, daß man überall da, wo irgend jemand etwas behauptet, das er geglaubt hat und das sich nachher als objektive Unwahrheit herausstellt, sich damit entschuldigt, daß man sagt, der Mensch dürfe doch dasjenige behaupten, was er nach seinem besten Wissen und Gewissen für Wahrheit hält. - Meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, mit diesem Grundsatz ist die Möglichkeit des Einzuges jeder möglichen objektiven Unwahrheit in das öffentliche Leben gegeben, und nur mit der Bekämpfung dieses Grundsatzes ist Moral in unser soziales Leben hineinzubringen, Moral hineinzubringen auch in unser geschäftliches, in unser ganzes wirtschaftliches Leben. Daher mußte ich — weil ich immer in Anspruch nehmen will denjenigen Wahrheitsgeist, der notwendig ist für die Anthroposophie auf der einen Seite, für das ganze moderne Leben auf der anderen Seite —, ich mußte diesen Wahrheitsgeist geltend machen gegenüber dem, was auf der charakterisierten Seite aufgetreten ist. Als Kulturerscheinung interessierte mich das, nicht als eine persönliche Sache, und als Kulturerscheinung führt das eigentlich erst zu jenem tieferen Wahrheitsbegriff, den wir heute so sehr nötig haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":300,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p019"}],"english":["GA 77b/1921-08-26/p019"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":300,"en_words":310,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","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. 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