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We may say: here for once ordinary consciousness is revealed as basically incapable of saying anything about the problems of mental life. The ego, the psyche, everything that earlier psychology brought to light—all these collapse in face of the self-criticism of ordinary consciousness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy and Psychology","site_heading":null,"date":"1922-06-02","location":null,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/83/1922-06-02/p013","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"B. A. 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Ich meine Richard Wahles «Das Ganze der Philosophie und ihr Ende», in dem dargestellt werden soll, wie dieses gewöhnliche Bewußtsein eigentlich zu keinen erheblichen Resultaten gegenüber dem Seelenleben kommen könne, wie dann abgegeben werden müsse, was philosophische Forschung in dieser Richtung zu erstreben versucht, an Theologie Physiologie, Ästhetik, Sozialpädagogik. Und in einer noch schärferen Weise hat dann Richard Wahle die Gedanken dieses Buches in seinem «Mechanismus des geistigen Lebens» ausgeführt. Wir können sagen: da wird wirklich einmal gezeigt, daß das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein im Grunde genommen ohnmächtig ist, irgendwie etwas auszusagen gegenüber den Fragen des seelischen Lebens. Das Ich, die seelische Einheit, alles das, was eine ältere Psychologie an die Oberfläche gebracht hat, sie zerfallen vor der Kritik, die dieses gewöhnliche Bewußtsein gegenüber sich selbst ausübt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-02/p013"}],"english":["GA 83/1922-06-02/p013"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":185,"en_words":159,"ratio":0.86,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.94,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6877,"original_word_count":7314,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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