Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/714/en

The Farm Organism and the I-Willed Work of the Human Being

Work in agriculture in general is determined by the things and beings active in nature. What in older times was instinctively felt as a prevailing wisdom guiding and sustaining the work has, in the dawning age of natural science, emancipated itself into the conceptual abstraction of the laws of nature. This was on the one hand an act of freedom on the part of the self-consciousness awakening in the I, and on the other hand a plunge into the compulsions of materialism as the henceforth dominant world-view. The outward fruit of this act of freedom is technology — an extract from physical-inorganic nature reshaped by the spirit of the human being. Technology does make it possible to relieve the human being of heavy labor, yet it imposes itself on nature with the consequences appearing worldwide. It severs the wisdom-filled relational contexts between physical, living, and ensouled nature from one another.