Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/671/en

Thinking in Human Fellowship (Brotherhood), the Path toward Solidary Economic Life

When one works down from the sphere of free willing, of individual initiative, into that in which from the creation of trust the sense of right holds sway — of being an equal among equals — a new field of experience arises for the thinking consciousness (Figure 10, p. 172). In everyday consciousness, thinking supports itself on the sense-perceptible appearance. In the social realm it must raise itself from this toward a world of phenomena that come into being only in social togetherness. These are the expression of what moves human beings in a spiritual-moral way. Ways of acting are the phenomenon, and thinking must now strive to research paths by which the manifold of these predominantly instinct-guided modes of behavior of human nature can be directed into right channels. Here, in the sphere of social life, thinking no longer merely reflects what is sense-perceptible; it stands before the challenge of actively bringing forth something that does not yet exist or is only just now coming into being. It