{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 77b/1921-08-26/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What first developed in a one-sided way was that which guided human beings to let a conscious soul-life take the place of an old instinctive soul-life. No matter how much one may declaim about the fact that man has lost his naivety as a result of consciousness having taken the place of the old instinctive, such declaiming has no more value than if one complains that one used to be twenty years old and looked a certain way, and now one is older. These things cannot be criticized, but must simply be recognized in their necessity. From the 15th century onwards, humanity had to pass over into consciousness, and it did so first in the realm of imaginative life. But even this imaginative life was formerly placed in the instinctive life. Those who are truly familiar with the totality of civilization and cultural life that preceded the 15th century, including Greek civilization, know how all the powers of the human soul worked instinctively in those days, and how even what was called scientific worked, in certain respects, much more instinctively, out of the instinct-based human soul condition, than it does today. And in this human soul-condition, borne by instinct, in which a world necessity beyond human beings was at work, a kind of threefold structure of this social life has always emerged, approximately, until the 15th century, as human beings have worked in social life. The instincts have worked, I might say, with natural certainty – if I may use this not quite proper expression. People have integrated themselves into the social organism through their instincts, and through what they have done in the process, what they have achieved – whether in these or those life situations that arose from people acting on instinct – a certain structure of the social organism has emerged in the spiritual sphere, in the legal-constitutional sphere and in the economic sphere.","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":317,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p024","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. 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Jahrhundert ab in die Bewußtheit übertreten, und sie tat das zunächst auf dem Gebiete des Vorstellungslebens. Aber auch dieses Vorstellungsleben war früher in das instinktiv-getragene Leben hineinversetzt. Wer wirklich kennt das Gesamte des Zivilisations- und Kulturlebens, das dem 15. Jahrhundert vorangegangen ist, einschließlich des griechischen, der weiß, wie die sämtlichen Kräfte der Menschenseele dazumal aus dem Instinktiven heraus wirkten, wie auch dasjenige, was man wissenschaftlich nannte, im Verhältnis zu heute in einer gewissen Beziehung viel mehr aus dem Instinktiven, aus der instinktgetragenen menschlichen Seelenverfassung heraus wirkte. Und in dieser instinktgetragenen menschlichen Seelenverfassung, in der eine über den Menschen hinausgehende Weltennotwendigkeit wirkte, hat sich bis zum 15. Jahrhundert annähernd, indem die Menschen gewirkt haben im sozialen Leben, immer eine Art von Dreigliederung dieses sozialen Lebens ergeben. Die Instinkte haben, ich möchte sagen mit naturhafter Sicherheit — wenn ich mich dieses nicht ganz ordentlichen Ausdrucks bedienen darf — gewirkt. Die Menschen haben aus den Instinkten heraus sich dem sozialen Organismus eingefügt, und durch dasjenige, was sie getan haben dabei, was sie bewirkt haben — sei es in diesen oder jenen Lebensstellungen, die selber dadurch entstanden sind, daß die Menschen aus den Instinkten heraus gewirkt haben —, ist eine gewisse Gliederung des sozialen Organismus nach der geistigen Sphäre hin, nach der rechtlichstaatlichen Seite und nach der wirtschaftlichen Seite entstanden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":314,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77b/1921-08-26/p024"}],"english":["GA 77b/1921-08-26/p024"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":314,"en_words":317,"ratio":1.01,"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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