Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1037/en

In the chapter "The Threefold Nature of the Human Being and the Farm Individuality" (p. 88 ff.), the concept of the "farm individuality" was taken up, along with its derivation from the trichotomy of the human being according to body, soul and spirit. The body is articulated in such a way that in the head or nerve-sense system it helps the human spirit toward self-consciousness in thinking, in the rhythmic system of the chest organs it allows the human soul to experience itself in self-feeling, and in the metabolic-limb system the human will is able to be active. In the human being, what spreads out around him as nature and what meets him as an object through the senses — all of this gathers itself together. In agriculture, then, we are dealing first of all with images, whose generative being conceals itself within them — as, for example, in the outward appearance of the cow, her being lies hidden. But to the consciously cognizing human being there opens the possibility of not remaining standing within the image, and of finding — not, proceeding from it, postulating in soulless abstraction the primal ground of existence in matter — but finding this primal ground in ideas that light up in an intuitive consciousness and awaken moral-spiritual impulses in the human being. The ideas are then no longer abstractions, when the consciously cognizing one brings them forth through his own thinking, enlivens them through his own feeling-experience, and plants them into his own will as moral impulses. Ideas grasped in this way first of all establish a free creativity that goes beyond nature. This builds, out of ethical intuitions, a bridge that spans the gulf between the