Personal and Social Transformation

Personal and Social Transformation: How to Develop Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity in Everyday Life

Throughout history, revolutions have challenged people to transform society on the basis of freedom, equality, and fraternity. Attempts are still being made to find a path beyond communism and liberal capitalism. Smit argues that individuals can and must take responsibility for developing real freedom in everyday life. He addresses the way rhetoric about equality can be transformed into reality. He looks at ways of liberating work from wage slavery and at the real, rather than the perceived, boundaries of the state, the economy, and voluntary activities.

About the Author

Jörgen Smit was born in Norway in 1916 and taught at a Rudolf Steiner school there for thirty years before becoming head of a teacher training college in Järna, Sweden. In 1975, he became a member of the Executive Council of the Anthroposophical Society and was leader of the Education Section (until 1989) and leader of the Youth Section until his death in 1991. He was a well-known lecturer and the author of several works on Rudolf Steiner education and the meditative path of anthroposophy.