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46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: About the Cognitive Process

Rudolf Steiner
As long as the world's lawfulness is something outside of us, it rules us; what we accomplish happens under its compulsion. If it is within us, then this compulsion ceases. For what was compelling has become our own nature.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: About Wilhelm Weigand: Friedrich Nietzsche

Rudolf Steiner
Despite many apt remarks, it does not do justice to Nietzsche because the author shows only a limited understanding of him. From many parts of the book, I would conclude that Weigand was highly talented. But a series of trivialities astonishes me. Anyone who wants to understand Nietzsche psychologically must realize that in this man certain intuitions appear through the medium of a grotesquely distorting mind.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: General Discouragement in the Field of Philosophy

Rudolf Steiner
The expression of this despondency is the emergence of the many epistemologies - Lotze's saying about sharpening knives - but the knives have remained blunt - epistemology has not grasped the actual fundamental philosophical task - Lasalle's saying: “Philosophy can be nothing but the consciousness that the empirical sciences attain of themselves.” All our philosophical science is under the spell of Kantianism. Since Otto Liebmann (1865) proclaimed the motto “back to Kant”, it has not been abandoned by research.
He examines our cognitive faculty in order to gain an understanding of its capabilities. He finds two roots: sensuality and reason. Our mental organization creates our experience with the material of sensations.
Haeckel's monism is therefore correct in principle. If we understand ourselves correctly, the world does not lead us out of itself. It must be explainable from within itself.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: On Nietzsche

Rudolf Steiner
It took the greatest courage of thought to think the thoughts that were thought in the tragic age of the Greeks: by Thales, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras. No one understands these sages unless they can build up a picture of their personalities from their thoughts. We are not interested in their teachings, but in their characters.
It's just that those who believe in objective truths don't have enough insight to understand this. Even their most objective truths are the products of subjective personalities, only tailored for a certain average way of life.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: About Eugen Kretzer. Friedrich Nietzsche

Rudolf Steiner
Friedrich Nietzsche by Lic. Dr. Eugen Kretzer. Enthusiastic and understanding approval with regard to the first writings. – Correct insight that “Zarathustra” does not signify a new epoch – no understanding of the second epoch.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: On Goethe and the 1830 Dispute Between Scholars

Rudolf Steiner
What the philosophers could tell him contradicted his nature. He did not understand his surroundings. This lack of understanding of his surroundings is vividly illustrated in [text breaks off]
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Goethe's Relationship to Natural Science

Rudolf Steiner
We imagine that the laws of organic action are actually physical laws, only in complicated combinations that are not easily understood. In exactly the same way, it is thought, as hydrogen and oxygen combine to form water under certain conditions, so under more complicated conditions, carbonic acid, ammonia, water and protein combine to form living substance, without the need to imagine special organic physical-chemical forces in addition to the physical-chemical ones.
When Goethe speaks of the unified organ that underlies all visible organs, he means an idealized structure that enables the observer to see the sequence of forms present in the plant in a living sequence and development.
This is a whole plant, only contracted into a sensually simple form. During germination, it undergoes further transformation, and the new plant thus presents itself only as a continuation of the parent plant.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Goethe's World View in the History of Thought

Rudolf Steiner
As long as the old worldview lived in people's minds, the old forms of society and state were also justified. Hegel recognized this. He understood that the old world order is the way it must be according to the old world of ideas. Reality corresponded to the old way of thinking, the old reasonableness.
What would have become of Faust if Goethe had remained true to his old world view? What happened to him under the influence of his age? Goethe the old man could not resist the world of feeling and imagination that assailed him from all sides; he finally bowed.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: On Comprehension

Rudolf Steiner
It is only from this idea that it is possible to understand that the individual moments of a more complicated form can also form a simple form as such. We do not understand how the composite is formed from the simple, but rather we always understand the simple through the composite. We understand the whole world through its most composite product, through man. What does it mean to understand?
It is quite ridiculous to want to explain what is perceptible to the ordinary eye through the microscopic. When we observe the act of procreation under the microscope, we basically have no more before us than what we see in ordinary life. A new organic form develops from a male and a female.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Consciousness – Life – Form

Rudolf Steiner
If it were impossible for the human being to become self-aware in this state, he would never be able to understand the conditions under consideration here. However, this is possible through the higher schooling mentioned above and described in this book, which is also called initiation.
The male physical body, on the other hand, came under the influence of the moon because it had taken on its form, which is infertile in terms of reproduction, under the influence of the planet still united with the earth. Alongside all these processes, the senses are developing at the same time, bringing the world of images of the sentient body under the influence of the earthly environment and thus placing the human being under the influence of the descendants of the Saturn planetary body.

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