{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 322/1920-09-27/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It has been possible to follow this spectacle—for it seems just that to anyone who is able to view it with an unprejudiced eye—within the scientific work and striving of the last fifty years especially. If one has sensed the full gravity of the situation, that with regard to this important question nothing but a weaving and unraveling of theories has taken place, one can pose the question: is not the continual striving for such a conceptual explanation of phenomena perhaps superfluous? Is not the proper answer to any question that arises when one confronts phenomena perhaps that one should simply allow the facts to speak for themselves, that one should describe what occurs in nature and forgo any more detailed accounting? Is it not possible that all such explanations show only that humanity is still tied to its mother's apron strings, that humanity in its infancy sought a kind of luxury? Would not humanity, come of age, have to say to itself: we must not strive at all for such explanation; we get nowhere in that way and must simply extirpate the need to know? Why not? As we become older we outgrow the need to play; why, if we were justified in doing so, should we not simply outgrow the need for explanations?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Consciousness, Matter, and the Crisis of Modern Thought","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Ist nicht vielleicht die richtige Antwort auf eine Frage, die sich aus alledem ergibt, diese, daß man einfach die Tatsachen für sich sprechen lassen soll, daß man beschreiben soll, was vorgeht in der Natur, und daß man auf Einzelheitenerklärung verzichten soll? Könnte es nicht vielleicht so sein, daß alle solche Erklärungen überhaupt nur eine Art Stecken-in-den-Kinderschuhen der Menschheitsentwickelung ist, daß die Menschheit in diesen Kinderschuhen wie nach einer Art Luxus hinstrebte, daß aber die reifgewordene Menschheit sich sagen müsse: Man muß überhaupt gar nicht streben nach solchen Erklärungen, man kommt mit solchen Erklärungen zu nichts, und man muß das Erklärungsbedürfnis einfach ausrotten. Es bedeutet die Reife des menschlichen Anschauens, solches Erklärungsbedürfnis auszurotten. - Warum denn nicht? 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