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Nun — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden —, ich habe hingewiesen auf jene Tatsache, die da vorliegt für die Menschheitsentwicklung, in meinem Buche «Die Rätsel der Philosophie», indem ich gezeigt habe, wie in der Tat die Seelenverfassung der Menschheit sich seit den alten griechischen Zeiten ganz wesentlich bis in unsere Tage verändert hat. Dasjenige, was für den Griechen ganz eigentümlich war, das war, dass er noch nicht ein völliges von der Außenwelt losgelöstes Selbstbewusstsein hatte. Wenn er die Welt dachte, so war er in einem ähnlichen Sinne mit dieser Welt verwachsen, wie wir es heute sind, wenn wir nur sinnlich wahrnehmen. Für den Griechen war der Gedanke in einem gewissen Sinne auch eine sinnliche Wahrnehmung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":144,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p019"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Wie wir das Rot, das Blau, das G, das Cis aus den sinnlichen Wahrnehmungen schöpfen, den Gedanken aber innerlich aktiv dazu bringen, sodass wir es selbst sind, die im Gedanken arbeiten, so war für den Griechen dieses innerliche aktive Arbeiten noch nicht da. Er entnahm ebenso wie wir den sinnlichen Wahrnehmungen — ebenso wie wir das Rot und Grün, das G und Cis der Sinneswahrnehmung —, so entnahm er auch die Wahrnehmungen von der äußeren Welt. Für ihn löste sich die Gedankenwahrnehmung noch nicht los von der äußeren Welt. Er hatte noch nicht jene Selbstständigkeit im Erfassen jenes menschlichen Selbstes, das erst im Laufe der Menschheitsentwicklung in der Art, wie es heute allgemein bekannt ist, heraufgezogen ist. Das Ich-Bewusstsein ist im Laufe der Zeiten im Wesentlichen verstärkt worden. Dadurch hat der Mensch in einer gewissen Weise sich losgelöst von der umgebenden Natur. Er ist dazu gekommen, in sich hineinzuschauen und im Innerlichen sich als etwas Selbsttätiges zu erfassen. Dadurch aber hat er sich gegenübergestellt der Natur, gewissermaßen sich aus der Natur herausgestellt, um dann das Innere der Natur wie etwas außer ihm Liegendes zu betrachten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p020"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Diese Betrachtung des Inneren der Natur wie etwas, was außerhalb der Menschenseele liegt, sie trat erst im Laufe der Zeiten hervor. Im alten Griechentum fühlte sich der Mensch mit seinem ganzen Gedankenleben noch im Inneren der Natur drinnen. Er fühlte noch verbunden das Weben der Menschenseele mit dem Inneren der Natur. Im Weiterschreiten der Entwicklung ist das dann anders gekommen. Der Mensch ist gerade dadurch zum Erfassen seines Selbstes gekommen, dass der Gedanke sich losgelöst hat von dem äußeren objektiven Leben. Und mit diesem Loslösen des Gedankens von dem äußeren objektiven Leben, mit dem hängt wiederum zusammen das Heraufkommen des Freiheitsgefühles, des Freiheitssinnes, der im Wesentlichen auch ein Ergebnis ist der neueren Jahrhunderte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p021"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Ich habe in meiner «Philosophie der Freiheit» bereits im Beginne der Neunziger Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts hervorgehoben, wie zusammenhängt mit dem Erfassen des reinen Denkens, des innerlich selbstständig arbeitenden Denkens, dasjenige, was das Freiheitserlebnis ist. Ich habe gesagt, dass alles dasjenige, was der Mensch als innerhalb des Freiheitserlebnisses stehend sieht, dass er das zusammenhängend findet mit dem, was ich das reine Denken genannt habe, jenes Denken, das ganz losgelöst ist von dem inneren organischen Leben, jenes Denken, das, wenn der Ausdruck nicht missverstanden wird, schon im gewöhnlichen Leben eine Art heraufgehobener Erkenntnis ist. Denn wenn wir durchziehen unser reines Denken mit sittlichen Ideen und Impulsen, mit solchen Ideen und Impulsen, die nicht zusammenhängen mit Begierden, nicht zusammenhängen mit Sympathien und Antipathien, sondern nur zusammenhängen mit der reinen, liebevollen Hingabe an die Tat, die begangen werden soll, wenn wir so den Impuls zu einer Tat, zu einer Handlung in unserer Seele aufleben lassen, dann ist die Tat, die Handlung, die aus einem solchen Impuls hervorgeht, eine wirklich freie. Daher kann man nicht die Frage nach der Freiheit in dem Sinne aufwerfen, wie das so vielfach aufgeworfen worden ist: Ist der Mensch frei oder ist der Mensch unfrei? Sondern man kann nur sagen: Der Mensch ist auf dem Wege zur Freiheit durch seine Selbstentwicklung, durch seine Selbsterkenntnis, durch sein innerliches Loskommen von seiner gewöhnlichen Seelenverfassung zu jener Seelenverfassung, in der er sich erhebt zu dem Erfassen des reinen Gedankens, der sich erfüllt mit dem sittlichen Ideale. Durch das wird er immer freier und freier.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":252,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p023"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Die Freiheit ist etwas, dem man sich fortwährend nähert. Daher gibt es hier kein Entweder-oder, sondern es gibt nur ein Sich-Nähern, ein Sowohl-als-auch. Man ist sowohl frei als unfrei, unfrei in Bezug auf dasjenige, wo wir noch bestimmt sind von unseren Begierden, von demjenigen, was gewissermaßen heraufsteigt aus unserem Organismus, aus dem instinktiven Leben; frei in Bezug auf dasjenige, in dem wir unabhängig geworden sind von dem instinktiven Leben, indem wir aufleben lassen können die reine Liebe zur Tat, die von uns erschaut wird in dem reinen Gedanken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":88,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p024"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Nun - meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden —, das, was man da schildert als den Zustand des Freiheitserlebnisses auf der einen Seite, als den Zustand des Gedankens, des reinen Gedankens, dem man sich hingeben könne, das ist natürlich für den heutigen Menschen durchaus noch ein Ideal, aber ein Ideal, das als etwas in seiner Seele schwebt, das mit seiner Menschenwürde durchaus zusammenhängt, ohne dessen Anstreben man sich eigentlich heute eine wirkliche Menschenwürde gar nicht denken kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":75,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p025"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Nun ist der Mensch in der neueren Zeit aber dennoch auf dem Wege nach einem solchen Ideal, und er ist auf diesen Weg gekommen gerade durch die naturwissenschaftliche Entwicklung der neueren Zeit. Wer diese naturwissenschaftliche Entwicklung, die ja in ihren Ergebnissen die weitesten Kreise beherrscht und immer mehr und mehr beherrschen wird, immer mehr und mehr die Grundlage der ganz allgemeinen Menschenbildung werden soll, wer diese naturwissenschaftliche Bildung der neueren Zeit ins Auge fasst, der weiß, dass man, sei es auf dem Gebiete des Unlebendigen, von dem Physikalischen bis zum Astronomischen, sei es auf dem Gebiete des Organischen, Lebendigen, dass man da so denken muss, dass immer mehr und mehr, trotzdem man sich auf Erfahrung und Experiment stützt, dass immer mehr und mehr der Gedanke, der innerlich vom Menschen erarbeitet wird, zur Geltung kommt. Und indem der Mensch da arbeitet, indem er geradeso arbeitet, wie das in der neueren naturwissenschaftlichen Weltanschauung der Fall ist, dadurch entwickelt sich dasjenige, was man sein gesteigertes Selbstbewusstsein nennen kann; seine Loslösung von dem Inneren der Natur, sie entwickelt sich dadurch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p026"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Man kann das wiederum sehen — meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden — an dem Beispiel der Astronomie. Indem man dasjenige, was die Beobachtung gibt, in Rechnung verwandelt hat, denn das ist ja im Wesentlichen dasjenige, was Kopernikus getan hat, erlangte man ein Weltsystem, das gewissermaßen vom Menschen selber ganz losgelöst ist - so war kein altes Weltsystem, dasjenige, was alte Weltsysteme waren, das war immer mit dem Menschen verbunden, der Mensch erlebte sich selbst als drinnenstehend in der Welt —, sodass der Mensch gewissermaßen nur ganz nebensächlich da ist, mit dem Planeten Erde durch den Weltenraum geschleudert wird, und ein Weltbild, das Weltgebäude zeigt, ganz abgesondert vom Menschen, ohne dass dasjenige, was im Inneren des Menschen lebt, sich hineinmischen darf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":119,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p027"},{"locus":"GA 80b/1921-02-01/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Dadurch wird aber der Mensch mit einem Gedankeninhalt erfüllt, wodurch er loskommt von sich selbst in einer gewissen Weise. Er denkt natürlich seinen Gedanken. In dem Denken ist er als Mensch immer noch damit verbunden, aber er denkt ihn so, dass nicht dasjenige, was aufsteigt aus seinem Organismus, was aus seinem instinktiven Leben kommt, damit verbunden ist; sondern er muss so denken, dass, obzwar der Gedanke noch mit ihm verbunden bleibt, doch dieser Gedanke sich loslöst von dem Menschlich-Persönlichen, dass er in diesen Gedanken gewissermaßen ganz objektiv wird. Dadurch ist es gerade, dass der Mensch zu seinem Selbstbewusstsein, zu seinem starken Selbstbewusstsein kommt. Diejenigen Anstrengungen, die durchzumachen sind, sei es in der modernen Astronomie, um zu einer Anschauung zu kommen, sei es in der modernen Physik oder in der modernen Chemie, um zu einer Anschauung zu kommen oder nur [um die Ergebnisse dieser Anschauung wirklich klar zu durchdenken], sei es auch im Felde der Biologie, der Lebenslehre, durch alles das, was da durchgemacht werden muss, muss der Mensch sein Selbstbewusstsein denkend erstarken.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-02-01/p028"}],"beads":[{"from":[18],"to":[19,20,21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[20,21],"to":[23,24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[22],"to":[25],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[23],"to":[26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[24,25],"to":[27,28],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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