{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 83/1922-06-05/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is from this point of view that I should now like to raise the question: Assuming that the limits of our knowledge of nature, which scientists too have been discussing since Du Bois-Reymond (though they are viewed very differently today from the way he saw them half a century ago), did not exist, what would be man's position in the world? Assuming that man's theoretical cognitive faculty, by which he connects his concepts with observations and the results of experiments in order to arrive at the laws of the universe, could also penetrate without difficulty into the organic realm; if it could advance as far as life, there would be little reason why it should stop short of the higher modes of existence—the realms of soul and spirit. Assuming therefore that the ordinary consciousness we employ in the sciences and work with in ordinary life were able at all times not only to approach the outside of life, but also to penetrate below the surface of things to their inner being: if there were thus no limit of knowledge, what sort of constitution would a man need? Well, his relation to the world would be such that his entire being, his inmost experience, would be constantly entering into everything with its spiritual antennae. Though this may appear paradoxical to some people, a dispassionate observer of life and of the relationship of man to the world will realize: a being whose ordinary everyday consciousness was unlimited would inevitably lack the capacity to love.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Nehmen wir an, daß das theoretische Erkenntnisvermögen, das sich im Menschen dadurch auslebt, daß er seine Begriffe mit den Beobachtungen und den Ergebnissen der Experimente verbindet, um dadurch zu einer Weltgesetzlichkeit zu kommen, ohne weiteres auch in das Reich des Organischen eindringen könnte, so würde es dann, wenn es bis zum Leben vordringen könnte, kaum haltzumachen brauchen vor den weiteren Steigerungen des Daseins, vor dem Seelischen, dem Geistigen. Nehmen wir also an, das gewöhnliche Bewußtsein, das wir in den Wissenschaften anwenden, mit dem wir uns im gewöhnlichen Leben in unserer Arbeit bewegen, wäre jederzeit imstande, nicht nur gewissermaßen an die Außenseite der Welt heranzutreten, sondern es würde unter die Oberfläche der Dinge, hindurch zu dem inneren Wesen der Dinge jederzeit vordringen können, wie müßte, wenn also eine solche Erkenntnisgrenze nicht vorhanden wäre, der Mensch geartet sein? Nun, er würde der Welt so gegenüberstehen, daß gewissermaßen sein ganzes Wesen, das er in sich erlebt, stets wie mit seelisch-geistigen Fühlhörnern überall untertauchen würde. Vielleicht wird es heute noch manchem paradox erscheinen, aber eine unbefangene Weltanschauung und eine Anschauung des Verhältnisses des Menschen zur Welt wird besagen können: Ein Wesen, das in dieser Weise für sein gewöhnliches Erdenbewußtsein keine Grenze hätte, das müßte entbehren der Liebefähigkeit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":261,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/83/1922-06-05/p007"}],"english":["GA 83/1922-06-05/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":261,"en_words":253,"ratio":0.97,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.98,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7124,"original_word_count":7286,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"B. A. 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