{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 84/1923-04-30/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The words of the ancient Greeks, addressed to man, sound like a deep spiritual admonition: “Know thyself!” These words can be applied to general knowledge of human nature, not so much to personal knowledge. In this way, knowledge of human nature is, as it were, designated as the summit of all human knowledge and striving. And we can also feel from the way this word sounds to us that it is not meant merely in a scientific-theoretical sense, but that it is meant as a spiritual admonition in a moral-religious sense. And one would like to say: After the expiration of a many-sided, self-contained spiritual development epoch of humanity, today a kind of counter-word stands before our soul. This counter-word was pronounced almost fifty years ago and has today, in a certain way, even been forgotten, disappeared from the consciousness of mankind. Nevertheless, the whole modern state of mind, what one carries within oneself today as the great soul conflicts, lives under the influence of this newer word. It is the word that Du Bois-Reymond pronounced, the word: “We cannot recognize,” the word: “Ignoramus, ignorabimus.” Even if many today believe themselves to be beyond the confession of this word, in the way we relate to the world as humans, this word is still deeply involved. It is, so to speak, the confession, expressed or unexpressed, of the results of scientific research in their significance for a general knowledge of the world and view of life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Development and Education of the Human Being in the Light of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-30","location":null,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/84/1923-04-30/p003","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"What is the Purpose of Anthroposophy and the Goetheanum?","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA084/English/SOL2024/19230430p01.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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Und man möchte sagen: Nach Ablauf einer vieles in sich schließenden geistigen Entwickelungsepoche der Menschheit steht heute vor unserer Seele eine Art Gegenwort. Dieses Gegenwort ist zwar schon vor nahezu fünfzig Jahren ausgesprochen und heute in einer gewissen Weise sogar vergessen worden, aus dem Bewußtsein der Menschen entschwunden. Dennoch lebt die ganze moderne Seelenverfassung, dasjenige, was man heute als die großen Seelenkonflikte in sich trägt, unter dem Einfluß dieses neueren Wortes. EsistdasWort, das Du Bois-Reymond ausgesprochen hat, das Wort: «Wir können nicht erkennen», das Wort: «Ignoramus, Ignorabimus». Wenn auch viele heute hinaus zu sein glauben über das Bekenntnis zu diesem Worte; in der Art und Weise, wie wir uns erkennend und glaubend als Menschen zur Welt verhalten, steckt noch heute intensiv dieses Wort dahinter. 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