{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 163/1915-08-23/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I want to convey just a sense of how Mauthner came to hold this view by quoting a passage from his *Dictionary of Philosophy*,[^3] written after his *Critique of Language*. Since we will be concerning ourselves with Chance, Providence and Necessity, I will quote a passage from his article on the word “chance.” As I read it you will see that the materialistic age has gradually learned to talk about certain things. I am not so much interested in touching on any theoretical aspects involved in what I'll be reading you as I am in getting you to examine your feelings as you are exposed to what a materialistic philosopher of the present has to say on such a subject. I'd like to have you try to sense the way he speaks. He says of chance in his treatise on it “And it would be like going back to childhood and taking out of a magic package the surprises some kindly merchant has concealed in it.” He believes that looking at all the things that happen by chance is like becoming a child again and taking out of a magic package all the surprises put into it by a kindly merchant! “As though one were to keep on making God responsible, as Spinoza, Hume, Kant, and Schopenhauer did ...” is his sense of it. Trying to explain the world by ascribing everything to a kindly God would, in his opinion, be to regress to the state of a child gradually discovering what some kind merchant has hidden in a surprise packet. The child explores its content and comes upon one lovely thing after another. That is how Mauthner sees anyone who, attempting to find a wise explanation of the phenomena of the world, makes God responsible by regarding Him as the world's Creator. And he goes on to say, “... if one wanted to follow the example of Spinoza, Hume, Kant, and Schopenhauer in making Schopenhauer's elderly Jew” (he calls Him that because the term “God of the Christians” strikes him as unsuitable) “responsible for unscrambling this confusion of chance and purpose.”","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. 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Ich möchte, indem ich diese Stelle zunächst vorlese, in Ihnen weniger irgendein Theoretisches nach der einen oder anderen Seite anschlagen, sondern ich möchte, daß Sie Ihr Fühlen, Ihr Empfinden fragen, wie eben so etwas sich erleben läßt, was ein matetialistischer Philosoph der Gegenwart in einem solchen Zusammenhange sagt. Ich möchte, daß Sie sich ein Gefühl verschaffen von der Art, wie er spricht. Er sagt in dem Artikel «Zufall» : «Und es hieße wahrhaftig zum Kinde werden, das aus seinem Wunderknäuel die Überraschungen abwickelt, die ein gütiger Fabrikant hineingewickelt hat.» Er meint, wenn man so alles Zufällige ansieht, so hieße das zum Kinde werden, das wie aus einem Wunderknäuel die Überraschungen abwickelt, die ein gütiger Fabrikant hineingewickelt hat! «Wollte man nach Spinoza, Hume, Kant und Schopenhauer immer noch den lieben Gott bemühen... .», meint er. Wollte man die Welt so erklären, daß man dabei den lieben Gott bemüht, so gliche man heute dem Kinde, das von einem Wunderknäuel so nach und nach abwickelt dasjenige, was ein gütiger Fabrikant ihm in denselben hineingewoben hat. Es wickelt ab; da kommt ein Schönes nach dem anderen heraus. So also kommt einem, meint Mauthner, derjenige vor, der den lieben Gott bemüht, indem er ihn der Welt zugrunde legt, um die Welterscheinungen weisheitsvoll zu erklären. Und er redet in folgender Weise: «Wollte man nach Spinoza, Hume, Kant und Schopenhauer den lieben Gott bemühen, Schopenhauers alten Juden» - also, er nennt den lieben Gott «Schopenhauers alten Juden», weil schon die Bezeichnung «Gott der Christen» ihm unrichtig erscheint - «um diese Verwirrung von Zufall und Zweck zu entwirren.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":355,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/163/1915-08-23/p005"}],"english":["GA 163/1915-08-23/p007"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":355,"en_words":352,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5067,"original_word_count":5225,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Chance, Providence and Necessity","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA163/English/AP1988/19150823p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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