{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-23/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This intuitive knowledge, which in a certain respect is the highest level of knowledge for looking at the external spiritual world, already comes to us in ordinary life, albeit in a different form. And I had to point this out as early as the beginning of the nineties — if I may make this personal remark — from my own soul development in my “Philosophy of Freedom” how the moral impulses of the human being — and the moral life gives the human being his actual value and his actual dignity — are drawn from a world that I also called an intuitive world back then, a world of spiritual substance. And I already said in this “Philosophy of Freedom”: The true moral impulses are drawn from a spiritual, supersensible world through pure, sensuality-free thinking. I established freedom in human life by pointing out that the question is usually asked wrongly. One asks: Is man free or unfree? He is just as free as he is unfree. Unfree in relation to everything that are the ordinary actions of life, which are bound to the physical organism, where they are impulsed by instincts, drives. But man develops more and more to freedom by coming to get his impulses for the moral, the ethical life from a spiritual world through pure thinking, even in ordinary life, even if more or less unconsciously. And man is free to the extent that his moral impulses come to him from a spiritual world. Therefore, what man grasps as moral intuitions becomes the model for what must now be asserted in anthroposophical research as the highest level of knowledge, as the intuitive level.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Essence of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-23","location":null,"word_count":277,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-23/p030","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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Und ich musste bereits Anfang der neunziger Jahre — wenn ich diese persönliche Bemerkung machen darf — aus meiner eigenen Seelenentwicklung heraus in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» darauf aufmerksam machen, wie die moralischen, die sittlichen Impulse des Menschen — und das moralische, das sittliche Leben gibt ja dem Menschen seinen eigentlichen Wert und seine eigentliche Würde — aus einer Welt geschöpft werden, die ich auch dazumal eine intuitive Welt genannt habe, eine Welt der geistigen Wesenhaftigkeiten. Und ich sagte schon in dieser «Philosophie der Freiheit»: Dasjenige, was die wahren moralischen Impulse sind, sie werden aus einer geistig-übersinnlichen Welt geholt durch reines, sinnlichkeitfreies Denken. Ich begründete die Freiheit im menschlichen Leben dadurch, dass ich aufmerksam machte: Die Frage wird gewöhnlich falsch gestellt. Man fragt: Ist der Mensch frei oder unfrei? Er ist ebenso wohl frei wie auch unfrei. Unfrei in Bezug auf alles das, was die gewöhnlichen Handlungen des Lebens sind, die an den physischen Organismus gebunden sind, wo sie von Instinkten, Trieben impulsiert werden. Aber der Mensch entwickelt sich immer mehr und mehr zur Freiheit, indem er dazu kommt, schon im gewöhnlichen Leben, wenn auch mehr oder weniger unbewusst, aus einer geistigen Welt durch reines Denken seine Impulse für das sittliche, das moralische Leben herauszuholen. Und soweit ist der Mensch frei, als ihm seine moralischen Impulse aus einer geistigen Welt kommen. 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