{"id":51822,"date":"2023-11-30T21:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=51822"},"modified":"2023-11-30T21:19:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T20:19:46","slug":"the-two-enemies-of-self-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-two-enemies-of-self-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Enemies of Self-Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we \u201cknow,\u201d there is always a hidden danger that we not only become aware of a problem but also can become arrogant and presumptuous. Suddenly, we know exactly what should be done, what this or that person should or could have done better, and we don\u2019t notice at all how we are more and more putting ourselves on a pedestal and looking down on the circumstances from up above. But there is also another problem associated with self-awareness: anger, even despair, concerning the things we realize we cannot do. After reading a book by Covey or Steiner, we can feel depressed and think, \u201cI know that all this is true and that, now, I must actually do it\u2014but I can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These reactions characterize the two classic enemies of any effective self-education. One is clothed in the illusion that if we have understood and know something, we, then, also have the right to judge and condemn other people who, in our opinion, do not yet have this understanding but should. There is also often the illusion that \u201cto know\u201d something means \u201cto be able to do\u201d it. The other enemy clothes itself in resignation which can even become depression. We don\u2019t trust ourselves to follow through with this path of development and we don\u2019t even have the courage to take a first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From<\/strong> Michaela Gl\u00f6ckler, <em>Macht in der zwischenmenschlichen Beziehung<\/em> [Power in interpersonal relationships] (Stuttgart, 1997).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Joshua Kelberman<br><strong>Graphic <\/strong>Sofia Lismont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on our temperament, to address or possibly criticize them. This touches on the problematic side of knowledge, cognition, and thinking. When we see something clearly, when we \u201cknow,\u201d there is always a hidden danger that we not only become aware of a problem but also can become arrogant and presumptuous. Suddenly, we know exactly what should be done, what this or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9198,"featured_media":51287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,9115],"tags":[11395,8819],"class_list":["post-51822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-consciousness","tag-2023-45-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51822","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\/9198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}