{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-01-26/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"These soul mysteries have also recently been brought before the scientific forum with great intensity. This natural science, which, where it is justified, is fully recognized by anthroposophy, and which rightly points out again and again its great triumphs for knowledge and for life in the most recent times, this natural science has, especially in the present day, forced serious thinkers, I might say, to face the riddles of the soul. Scientific research is concerned, after all, primarily with that which is given to man sensually and which can be traced back to its laws through observation and experiment and through the combining mind. But what this scientific research has increasingly lost sight of in recent times is the human being himself. Natural science methods are and will always be applied to the outer human nature, the physical organization of the human being. In the extension of these methods to the great questions of the soul life, anthroposophy must find that these natural science methods do not remain true to themselves, even with great researchers. For this reason, I would like to begin by pointing out the way in which the present-day natural sciences in particular often approach the riddles of the soul, and how anthroposophical research must nevertheless take a negative view of this approach because, as I emphasized in the previous lectures, — must proceed more strictly and critically in the supersensible, in the realm of soul and spiritual life, out of scientific conscientiousness, than one proceeds on the natural science side when questions of soul and spiritual life are to be considered.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and the Riddles of the Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-01-26","location":null,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-01-26/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/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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Aber was diesem naturwissenschaftlichen Forschen in der neuesten Zeit immer mehr und mehr abhandengekommen ist, das ist der Mensch selber. Die äußere menschliche Natur, die physische Organisation des Menschen, sie ist und wird ja immer wieder und wieder ins Auge gefasst durch die naturwissenschaftlichen Methoden. In der Ausdehnung dieser Methoden auf die großen Fragen des Seelenlebens insbesondere muss Anthroposophie finden, dass diese naturwissenschaftlichen Methoden sich selber, selbst bei großen Forschern, nicht eigentlich treu bleiben. Aus diesem Grunde möchte ich einleitungsweise auf die Art hinweisen, wie gerade von naturwissenschaftlicher Seite an die Seelenrätsel in der Gegenwart oftmals herangegangen wird, und wie sich anthroposophische Forschung zu diesem Wege dennoch ablehnend verhalten muss, weil sie — wie ich in den vorigen Vorträgen betont habe — für das Gebiet des Übersinnlichen, für das Gebiet des Seelen- und Geisteslebens strenger, kritischer vorgehen muss, aus wissenschaftlicher Gewissenhaftigkeit heraus, als man selbst auf naturwissenschaftlicher Seite vorgeht, wenn Fragen des Seelen- und Geisteslebens in die Betrachtung gezogen werden sollen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":266,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-01-26/p006"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-01-26/p006"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":266,"en_words":265,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9357,"original_word_count":8959,"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/SOL2024/19220126p01.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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