{"id":49375,"date":"2023-08-03T21:10:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=49375"},"modified":"2023-08-03T21:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:10:53","slug":"why-is-the-world-thinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/why-is-the-world-thinkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is the World Thinkable?"},"content":{"rendered":"The step from the Intellectual Soul to the Consciousness Soul is related to the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm. A short treatise.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1.\n\n\n\nWhen I first heard Albert Einstein's famous quote as a boy: \"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is basically that we can understand it,\" I was tormented by it for a long time, because the root of understanding seemed obscure and incomprehensible to me. In our everyday consciousness it seems self-evident that we can understand the world just as we can speak. But as babies we can neither speak nor understand the world. Understanding is not rigid and self-evident but a faculty that develops from scratch in both general and individual human history. What is the root of this wonderful capacity? Maybe it's just coinci<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The step from the Intellectual Soul to the Consciousness Soul is related to the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm. A short treatise. 1. When I first heard Albert Einstein&#8217;s famous quote as a boy: &#8220;The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is basically that we can understand it,&#8221; I was tormented by it for a long time, because the root of understanding seemed obscure and incomprehensible to me. In our everyday consciousness it seems self-evident that we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12175,"featured_media":49078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8793,8823],"tags":[11362,8814],"class_list":["post-49375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-reflection","tag-2023-29-30-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}