{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80a/1922-05-16/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And now I would like to give you a characterization of modern forms of consciousness, where we arrive when we acquire this living thinking. I will point out something that is close to every person today. If we have any connection at all with today's worldviews, we realize how a so-called higher animal is constituted, how its functions, its bodily processes work. We form an inner image of this higher animal in our thoughts. In doing so, we visualize the nature of this animal. But then we may turn to the human being. We form an inner picture of the human being again, using all the material that science provides us with today. Later it will be even more complete, but in principle no different, as long as thinking is applied only in the abstract, as it is today in the study of natural laws — we form an image of the human being, of the structure of the bones, the structure of the muscles, the structure of the other organs, of the interweaving and interflowing of the inner bodily processes. Then we compare this picture with the picture we have of higher animals and we find a certain relationship. Depending on whether we think more or less materialistically, we imagine that man then emerges physically from the higher animal. If we think more idealistically or spiritually, we imagine this relationship differently. But we look at it by forming the idea of the higher animal on the one hand and the idea of man on the other and comparing them, we form something through this comparison, which is then to become our world view of our environment. But now let us ask ourselves a question that may interest us. What is the difference between thinking, with which one compares the concept of the higher animal with the concept of man, as one can outwardly compare a higher animal with a lower animal, the lower animal with a plant. Let us ask ourselves the question: What is the difference between this dead abstract thinking and that living thinking that one acquires through the modern exercises of knowledge for the supersensible world?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Anthroposophy and Knowledge of the Spirit","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-05-16","location":null,"word_count":360,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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Wir bilden uns wieder mit all dem Material, das uns heute die Wissenschaft liefert — später wird es noch vollkommener werden, aber im Prinzip nicht anders, solange das Denken nur als Abstraktes angewendet wird, so wie es heute zur Erforschung der Naturgesetze angewendet wird —, wir machen uns von dem Menschen ein Bild, von der Knochengestaltung, der Gestaltung seiner Muskeln, der Gestaltung seiner übrigen Organe, von dem Ineinanderweben, dem Ineinanderfließen seiner inneren leiblichen Vorgänge. Dann vergleichen wir das Bild mit dem Bilde, das wir uns an höheren Tieren vergegenwärtigen und wir finden eine gewisse Verwandtschaft. Je nachdem wir mehr oder weniger materialistisch denken, stellen wir uns vor, dass der Mensch dann wie physisch hervorgeht aus dem höheren Tier. Wenn wir mehr idealistisch oder spirituell denken, so stellen wir uns diese Verwandtschaft anders vor. Aber wir sehen hin, indem wir uns die Idee des höheren Tieres auf der einen Seite und die Idee des Menschen auf der anderen Seite bilden und sie vergleichen, wir bilden uns durch diese Vergleichung etwas aus, was uns dann zur Weltanschauung über unsere Umwelt werden soll. Aber jetzt stellen wir uns eine Frage, die uns interessieren kann. Welch ein Unterschied ist zwischen dem Denken, mit dem man vergleicht den Begriff von dem höheren Tier mit dem Begriff von dem Menschen, wie man ein höheres Tier mit einem niederen Tier, das niedere Tier mit einer Pflanze äußerlich vergleichen kann. Stellen wir uns die Frage: Welch ein Unterschied ist zwischen diesem toten abstrakten Denken und jenem lebendigen Denken, das man sich aneignet durch die modernen Erkenntnisübungen für die übersinnliche Welt?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":354,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80a/1922-05-16/p027"}],"english":["GA 80a/1922-05-16/p027"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":354,"en_words":360,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":9395,"original_word_count":9183,"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/SOL2024/19220516p01.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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