{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p038","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In our present time one could say at once: for the underlying soul there is a distinct tendency present to incline towards the spirit world. A more precise intimate glance onto the nineteenth century and on up to our present time could teach us this. Against this in the nineteenth century amongst the philosophers there also came into play what has been called pessimism, a world view that immediately looks at the wicked and to the evil present in the world, and draws the conclusion some individuals have already drawn it—, that this world cannot be seen as good overall, that something other is required of mankind, than being led to its end. I will only refer to Schopenhauer or to Eduard von Hartmann, who both saw the solution for mankind, in that they said: an individual can only find his/her salvation in the rise of world processes, but not in a personally satisfying conscious purpose. But I would like to refer to something else: that the soul in the age of matter is imprisoned in materialism, and that in this time the strongest hopelessness must arise towards the world's evils, towards the wicked; since materialism rejects a spiritual world, out of which light shines upon us, to give its meaning to evil and to the wicked. If this world is rejected, it is entirely necessary that this world is hopelessly covered in filth by evil and wickedness in their purposelessness.—I will not refer to Nietzsche today, but to another spirit of the nineteenth century. From a certain viewpoint I also wish to refer to a tragic thinker of the nineteenth century: from the viewpoint that a human being must necessarily live with their time, in that he/she is inserted into their own time. That is a property of our being, that our being finds itself together with the being of our time. So it was only natural that in the latest times, that deeply formed spirits, yes, precisely those who had an open heart for what took place in their surroundings, we deeply gripped by that world description, which only wants to see the outermost appearance of the alpha and omega of world existence. But such spirits can often give in to an illusion, that one can go through the world inconsolably, if one must look into that world existence which must be portrayed as evil—and cannot look up to a spiritual world, in which evil is justified, as we have seen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. Evil in the Light of Spiritual Knowledge","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-01-15","location":null,"word_count":413,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/63/1914-01-15/p038","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Spiritual Science as a Life's Work","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA063/English/eLib2015/19140115p02.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Ich will nur auf Schopenhauer oder auf Eduard von Hartmann hinweisen, welche gleichsam die Erlösung für den Menschen darin gesehen haben, daß sie sagten: nur in dem Aufgehen im Weltprozesse kann der einzelne sein Heil finden, nicht aber in einem, persönliche Befriedigung gewährenden Ziel. Aber ich möchte auf etwas anderes hinweisen: daß die Seele im Zeitalter der Materie von dem Materialismus gefangen ist, und daß in diesem Zeitalter die stärkste Trostlosigkeit eintreten muß gegenüber den Übeln der Welt, gegenüber dem Bösen; denn der Materialismus lehnt eine geistige Welt ab, aus der uns erst das Licht heraus leuchtet, was dem Übel und dem Bösen seine Bedeutung gibt. Wird diese Welt abgelehnt, so ist es ganz notwendig, daß uns diese Welt der Übel und des Bösen in ihrer Zwecklosigkeit trostlos entgegenstarrt. — Ich will heute nicht auf Nietzsche hinweisen, sondern auf einen anderen Geist des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Von einem gewissen Gesichtspunkte aus möchte ich auf einen tragischen Denker des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts hinweisen: von dem Gesichtspunkte aus, daß der Mensch, indem er in seine Zeit hineingestellt ist, notwendigerweise mit seiner Zeit leben muß. Das ist das Eigentümliche unseres Wesens, daß sich unser Wesen zusammenfindet mit dem Wesen der Zeit. So war es nur natürlich in der letzten Zeit, daß tief veranlagte Geister, ja, gerade die, welche ein offenes Herz hatten für das, was sich in ihrer Umgebung abspielte, tief ergriffen wurden von jener Welterklärung, die nur in den äußeren Erscheinungen das Um und Auf des Weltendaseins sehen will. 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