{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 82/1922-04-12/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now, anyone who sees more deeply into these matters must ask themselves the following: We once had to advance to that in the development of humanity, which I strictly defended on one of the last lecture evenings for the external natural sciences, especially the inorganic natural sciences; we had to advance to pure phenomenalism, as Goethe also demanded. To that pure phenomenalism, which no longer uses thinking to construct all kinds of atomic worlds behind sense perceptions that can no longer be perceived; which uses thinking merely to read sense perceptions, to remain within the phenomenal world, to arrange the phenomena in such a way that they appear to us as archetypal phenomena in the Goethean sense. All this has been done in the most diverse variations here in recent days. I do not want to deny that something of the kind does not live in a great number of people of the present time. Nevertheless, on the one hand, there is a definite tendency to theorize, where we, so to speak, once we have entered into thinking, pierce through the sensory carpet and continue with thinking for a while beyond sensory perception, where there is no longer anything for thinking to create. There we then posit atoms and all sorts of other things. This corresponds to a kind of law of inertia. Thinking will, in accordance with our present position, our present relationship to the world, actually only be applicable in such a way that we can apply it in the service of grouping, of interpreting phenomena in relation to one another, thus remaining within the phenomenal world, so to speak, reading the phenomenon and not underlying things with all kinds of explanations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. 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Zu jenem reinen Phänomenalismus, der das Denken nicht mehr dazu gebraucht, um hinter den Sinneswahrnehmungen allerlei atomistische Welten, die nicht mehr wahrgenommen werden können, zu konstruieren; der das Denken lediglich dazu gebraucht, um in den Sinneswahrnehmungen zu lesen, um innerhalb der phänomenalen Welt stehen zu bleiben, die Phänomene so zu ordnen, daß sie uns als Urphänomene im Goetheschen Sinne erscheinen. Das alles ist ja in den verschiedensten Variationen in diesen Tagen hier ausgeführt worden. Ich möchte auch gar nicht sagen, daß nicht in einer großen Anzahl von Menschen der Gegenwart so etwas lebt. Trotzdem ist auf der einen Seite durchaus ein gewisses Theoretisieren vorhanden, wo wir gewissermaßen, weil wir einmal im Denken darinnen sind, den Sinnesteppich durchstoßen und mit dem Denken noch eine Weile fortrollen hinter den Sinneswahrnehmungen, wo für das Denken nichts mehr zu schaffen ist. Da statuieren wir dann Atome und allerlei anderes. Das entspricht einer Art Gesetz der Trägheit. Das Denken wird gemäß unserer gegenwärtigen Stellung, unserem gegenwärtigen Verhältnis zur Welt, eigentlich nur so anwendbar sein, daß wir es im Dienste der Gruppierung, der gegenseitigen Interpretation der Phänomene anwenden können, also innerhalb der phänomenalen Welt bleiben, gewissermaßen die Phänomen ablesen und nicht den Dingen allerlei Erklärendes unterlegen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/82/1922-04-12/p022"}],"english":["GA 82/1922-04-12/p022"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":284,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12477,"original_word_count":12023,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"So That Man may Become Fully Human","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA082/English/SOL2025/19220412p01.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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