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And an immortality without the striving for truth would be equally senseless; life would be a world deception if the striving for truth were not accompanied by the fact of immortality. And it is precisely against this background that Solowjow speaks out sharply against what Herbert Spencer sets as the goal of human development, not mentioning Spencer on this occasion, but discussing it himself. He says: Let us just assume that this development of humanity would consist solely of individual generations producing further generations, thus the same always producing the same; a rolling wheel of this kind would be the most senseless thing imaginable.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"5. 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Und er sagt: Zwei Ziele müsse der Mensch haben im Leben. Das eine Ziel könne nur sein das Erstreben der Vollkommenheit durch immer weiteres und weiteres Vorrücken in der Erkenntnis der Wahrheit, das andere aber müsse sein, sich einzuleben in dasjenige, was dem Menschen die Unsterblichkeit gibt. Man möchte jetzt sagen: Nicht aus abstrakten Begriffen heraus, sondern aus dem Vollmenschlichen heraus redet Solowjow weiter, indem er sagt: Das Leben, das sich nur vervollkommnen würde in der Wahrheit, es wäre sinnlos, wenn ihm nicht die Unsterblichkeit zur Seite stünde, denn ohne die Unsterblichkeit wäre das Streben nach Wahrheit, nach Vollkommenheit in der Wahrheit, sinnlos, ein einfaches Verglimmen, ein Vergehen des Wesenhaften; das Nach-Wahrheit-Streben wäre sinnlos. Und eine Unsterblichkeit ohne das Streben nach Wahrheit wäre ebenso sinnlos; das Leben wäre ein Weltbetrug, ohne dass dem Wahrheitsstreben die Tatsache der Unsterblichkeit zur Seite stünde. Und aus solchen Gedankenuntergründen heraus spricht Solowjow scharf gerade gegen dasjenige — nicht Herbert Spencer bei dieser Gelegenheit erwähnend, aber dasjenige besprechend —, was Herbert Spencer als Ziel hinsetzt der Menschheitsentwicklung. 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