{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-23/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, no spiritual research could possibly make any impression or exert any fruitful influence in the long term if it were to contradict the significant developments that have taken place over the last three to four centuries, and particularly in the nineteenth century, through natural science and its practical results. But that is certainly not what anthroposophy wants. It seeks to follow into the spiritual world the very paths that have led to significant results in natural science. It must therefore side with those natural scientists, the level-headed natural scientists, who, after thoroughly pursuing the paths of natural science, speak of the limitations of natural science. These limits soon become apparent when one considers that natural science can only observe the external sense world, can only combine the facts of the external sense world that arise from observation or experiment through the intellect, through the mind, and then can combine certain natural laws from these observations, from these experiments; natural laws in which, however, the human being with his physical corporeality is also harnessed. But the attempts made to go beyond the limits set by the sensory world by mere reason alone — as one also says, by philosophical thinking — always leave the unbiased person unsatisfied. The unbiased person feels: as soon as scientific thinking, as we are accustomed to it today, leaves the paths of sensory experience, experiment and observation, thinking left to its own devices enters into uncertainty. The dispute between philosophical systems testifies to the extent to which thinking left to its own devices enters into uncertainty. Anthroposophical research in particular makes it clear how this thinking, which we have in ordinary life and in ordinary, recognized science, not only binds itself to the sensory experience of the level-headed natural scientist out of habit or arbitrariness, but how it itself is dependent step by step on this sensory experience, so that it only has certainty when this external experience, this sensory experience, guides it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-23","location":null,"word_count":328,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p006","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":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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Daher muss sie gerade auf die Seite derjenigen Naturforscher, der besonnenen Naturforscher sich stellen, welche aus einer gründlichen Verfolgung der naturwissenschaftlichen Wege von Grenzen dieser Naturwissenschaft sprechen. Diese Grenzen ergeben sich ja bald, wenn man bedenkt, dass die Naturwissenschaft nur kann beobachten die äußere Sinneswelt, nur kann durch den Intellekt, durch den Verstand kombinieren die Tatsachen der äußeren Sinneswelt, die sich der Beobachtung oder dem Experiment ergeben, und dann gewisse Naturgesetze aus diesen Beobachtungen, aus diesen Experimenten kombinieren kann; Naturgesetze, in die allerdings auch der Mensch mit seiner physischen Leiblichkeit eingespannt ist. Aber die Versuche, die gemacht werden, um durch den bloßen Verstand — wie man auch wohl sagt, durch philosophisches Denken — über diese Grenzen, die uns die Sinneswelt setzt, hinauszukommen, sie lassen den unbefangenen Menschen doch immer unbefriedigt. Der unbefangene Mensch fühlt: Sobald das wissenschaftliche Denken, wie man es heute gewohnt ist, die Wege der Sinneserfahrung, des Experiments, der Beobachtung verlässt, so kommt das sich selbst überlassene Denken in eine Unsicherheit hinein. Der Streit der philosophischen Systeme bezeugt ja, wie sehr man da mit dem sich selbst überlassenen Denken in ein Unsicheres hineinkommt. Gerade anthroposophische Forschung macht einem klar, wie dieses Denken, das wir im gewöhnlichen Leben und in der gewöhnlichen, anerkannten Wissenschaft haben, nicht nur seiner Gewohnheit nach oder aus einer Willkür heraus sich an die Sinneserfahrung bei dem besonnenen Naturforscher bindet, sondern wie es selber Schritt für Schritt abhängig ist von dieser Sinneserfahrung, sodass es nur eine Sicherheit hat, wenn diese äußerliche Erfahrung, diese sinnliche Erfahrung es führt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":331,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p006"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-23/p006"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":331,"en_words":328,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10817,"original_word_count":10371,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080a/English/SOL2024/19220123p01.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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