{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 63/1914-01-15/p041","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Philipp Mainländer looked out into the world, and he could only see under the pressure of materialism, what the senses and understanding portray. But he must assume a spirit world. But it is not there, he told himself; the sense world must be illuminated from itself. And now he came to the view that the spirit world of our ancestors was real, that once there was a divine spirit existence, that our soul was within a divine- spiritual existence, and that the divine existence from a former being has gone over into us, and that our world can only be there, because God had died before that spirit world died before us. So Mainländer sees a spirit world, but not in our world; but in our world he only sees a cadaver loaded with evil and wickedness, which can only be there, so that its destruction can be overcome, so that what led to God and his spirit world to die, should not enter into the destruction of the cadaver into nothingness.—Monists or other thinkers may laugh more or less at this; whoever better understands the human soul and knows how a world view can become the inner destiny of a soul, how the entire soul can adopt the nuances of a world view. He/she knows what a human being must experience, who, like Mainländer, was forced to transpose the spirit world into past times and was only able to see the material cadaver of the same left behind in the current world. In order to resolve the evils of this world, Mainländer had taken up this kind of world view. That he was more deeply involved in his world view than Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, than Bahnsen or Eduard von Hartmann, we can see from that fact that, at the time of finishing his “Philosophy of Salvation” in his fifty-third year, the thought came to him: your strength has been used lovelessly, since you more quickly offer what appears as your salvation of humanity, than when you still used it after the middle of *the* life in the body. That Mainländer thought with his world view with the deepest sincerity is shown from the fact that he, when he came to this thought: you now use more strength, when you pour out your power into the world and do not concentrate on the body. He really drew the conclusion, which Schopenhauer and the others did not draw, and died through suicide, and that is, a suicide through conviction.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. 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So sieht Mainländer eine geistige Welt, aber nicht in unserer Welt; sondern in unserer Welt sieht er nur den mit dem Übel und dem Bösen beladenen Leichnam, der nur da sein kann, damit er seiner Vernichtung übergeben wird, damit das, was dazu geführt hat, Gott und seine Geisteswelt zum Absterben zu bringen, zuletzt auch noch im Zugrundegehen des Leichnams in das Nichtsein treten könne. — Mögen Monisten oder andere Denker darüber mehr oder weniger lächeln; wer sich aber auf die menschliche Seele besser versteht und weiß, wie Weltanschauung inneres Schicksal der Seele werden kann, wie die ganze Seele die Nuance der Weltanschauung annehmen kann, der weiß, was ein Mensch erleben mußte, der, wie Mainländer, die geistige Welt in eine Vorzeit versetzen mußte und in der gegenwärtigen Welt nur den materiell zurückgebliebenen Leichnam derselben sehen konnte. Um mit den Übeln dieser Welt fertig zu werden, hat Mainländer zu einer solchen Weltanschauung gegriffen. Daß er mehr drinnen war in dieser seiner Weltanschauung als Schopenhauer oder Nietzsche, als Bahnsen oder Eduard von Hartmann, das sehen wir daran, daß ihm in dem Augenblicke seines fünfunddreißigsten Jahres, als er seine «Philosophie der Erlösung» beendet hatte, der Gedanke kam: Deine Kraft wird jetzt leiblos gebraucht, damit du das, was dir zur Erlösung der Menschheit erscheint, schneller förderst, als wenn du nach der Mitte des Lebens den Leib noch benutzest. Daß Mainländer es mit seiner Weltanschauung im tiefsten Ernste meinte, zeigt sich daraus, daß er, als er zu diesem Gedanken kam: Du nutzest jetzt mehr, wenn du deine Kraft ausgießest in die Welt und nicht auf deinen Leib konzentrierst, wirklich die Konsequenz gezogen hat, die Schopenhauer und die anderen nicht gezogen haben, und durch Selbstmord, und zwar Selbstmord aus Überzeugung, starb.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":400,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/63/1914-01-15/p045"}],"english":["GA 63/1914-01-15/p041"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":400,"en_words":418,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.07,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":10981,"original_word_count":10241,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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. 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