{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 78/1921-08-30/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"At that time, however, the fruits of agnosticism regarding the process of cognition presented the soul with nothing other than what had emerged in the development of Kantianism and what had further manifested itself in the development of what had been the maxim of physiological imagination in the 19th century since Johannes Müller. People thought that the only way to explore what was truly real was to look outside, and that thinking only had the task of depicting this exterior; one would arrive at correct thinking not by bringing something from within the human being into perception, but by using thinking only passively to create images of reality. But this reality, it was thought, already existed somewhere, quite apart from the thought process, from the inner soul process. Such thinking then leads to imaginary concepts, such as the familiar or unfamiliar “thing in itself.” Talking about this “thing in itself” only makes sense if one believes that reality must exist somewhere, apart from human knowledge, and that one only needs to use certain procedures to gain knowledge of this reality. Then the process of cognition would not be something actually experienced, but only something formal, standing in the corner alongside real events and real things. In contrast, it became clear to me that cognition is in fact something real; because by examining the actual content of perception, that is, what we are devoted to when we passively allow the outside world to affect us through our senses, it became apparent that this outside world does not contain reality, but that humans are born into the world in such a way that when they look into this outside world only through their senses, he experiences only half of this reality, only one side of reality, through his senses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"Thinking as Creative Participation in Reality","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Nicht anders dachte man da, als: das eigentlich Wirkliche sei da zu erforschen, wo das Draußen ist, und das Denken habe nur die Aufgabe, dieses Äußere abzubilden; man würde zu dem richtigen Denken dadurch kommen, wenn man nicht aus dem menschlichen Inneren heraus etwas in die Wahrnehmung hineintrüge, sondern wenn man das Denken nur ganz passiv dazu benützen würde, Bilder der Wirklichkeit zu schaffen. Diese Wirklichkeit aber, dachte man, sei schon, ganz abgesehen von dem Denkprozeß, von dem innerlichen Seelenprozeß, irgendwo fertig da. Solches Denken verführt ja dann dazu, zu imaginären Begriffen zu kommen, wie zum Beispiel der ist von dem bekannten oder unbekannten «Ding an sich». Zu sprechen von diesem «Ding an sich» hat nur einen Sinn, wenn man meint, irgendwo müsse an sich, abgesehen von der menschlichen Erkenntnis, die Wirklichkeit sein, und man brauche nur durch irgendwelche Prozeduren sich eben eine Erkenntnis zu verschaffen von dieser Wirklichkeit. Dann wäre der Erkenntnisprozeß eben nichts real Erlebtes, dann wäre er nur etwas formell neben dem wirklichen Geschehen und den wirklichen Dingen in der Ecke Stehendes. Demgegenüber ergab sich mir, daß das Erkennen nun tatsächlich etwas Reales ist; denn durch die Prüfung des eigentlichen Wahrnehmungsinhaltes, desjenigen also, dem wir hingegeben sind, wenn wir passiv die Außenwelt auf uns durch unsere Sinne wirken lassen, zeigte sich, daß diese Außenwelt eben nicht die Wirklichkeit enthält, sondern daß der Mensch so in die Welt hereingeboren ist, daß, wenn er nur durch seine Sinne in diese Außenwelt hineinschaut, er eben nur die Hälfte dieser Wirklichkeit, nur eine Seite der Wirklichkeit, durch seine Sinne erlebt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":313,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/78/1921-08-30/p021"}],"english":["GA 78/1921-08-30/p021"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":313,"en_words":297,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5464,"original_word_count":5410,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Anthroposophy: Its Roots of Knowledge and Fruits of Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA078/English/SOL2025/19210830p01.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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