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But anyone who carries the phenomenon of freedom, the experience of freedom in the full sense of the word, directly in their consciousness cannot help but reject metaphysical results in the sense I have indicated; they must strive to have as the results of their observation, as the possible present content of their soul, that which can influence them precisely in relation to their most intimate being. The philosophy of freedom seemed to me inseparable from what can be expressed in the sentence: “Spiritual results of observation according to the scientific method,” that is, the method of observation that science had learned to adhere to would also have to be extended to what should become the content of spiritual life for human beings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Freedom, Knowledge, and Spiritual Science's Answer","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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Denn könnte man nicht dahin gelangen, alles dasjenige, was in irgendeiner Hinsicht den Menschen gerade in bezug auf sein tiefstes Inneres angeht, auch in sein Bewußtsein hereinzubringen, dann müßte man annehmen, der Mensch werde gelenkt und geleitet an Fäden aus unbekannten Welten herein, aus Welten, die man höchstens im abstrakten Denken erschließen, die man aber niemals erleben kann. Wer aber das Phänomen der Freiheit, das Erlebnis der Freiheit im vollen Sinne des Wortes unmittelbar in seinem Bewußtsein trägt, der kann nicht anders, als metaphysische Resultate in dem Sinne, wie ich das angedeutet habe, abweisen; er muß streben, als Beobachtungsresultate, als möglichen gegenwärtigen Seeleninhalt dasjenige zu haben, was auf ihn gerade in bezug auf sein intimstes Wesen Einfluß haben kann. Freiheitsphilosophie erschien mir unzertrennlich von demjenigen, was ausgesprochen werden kann in dem Satze: «Seelische Beobachtungs-Resultate nach naturwissenschaftlicher Methode», das heißt, die Beobachtungsmethode, auf die die Naturwissenschaft gelernt hatte zu halten, müßte auch auf das ausgedehnt werden, was Inhalt des geistigen Lebens für den Menschen werden soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":231,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/78/1921-08-31/p005"}],"english":["GA 78/1921-08-31/p005"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":231,"en_words":249,"ratio":1.08,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5586,"original_word_count":5401,"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/SOL2025/19210831p01.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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