Philosophy as an Approach to the Spirit

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“What was important for Steiner was less the body of his ideas themselves than the transformation they can bring about in the reader by opening the mind to the real nature of the spiritual world. Philosophy, properly regarded, is not the intellectual solution of abstract questions not being asked, but an activity that helps to resolve the questions that arise in the course of life itself. It must therefore itself become organically alive” (from the preface).

The object of this study is to outline, as straightforwardly as possible, the whole range of the philosophical work by Rudolf Steiner. These works were far ahead of their time and not widely recognized, remaining virtually unknown to most modern philosophers. Steiner’s later works of spiritual science and their practical manifestation in many aspects of life—including education, agriculture, and medicine—are nevertheless gaining increasing interest. In this context, his philosophy, which lays the foundation for all that followed, needs to be widely understood. Because this philosophy describes Steiner’s living experiences of the physical and invisible worlds, the author places it in the context of a brief biography to show how Steiner’s thinking developed.

Richard Seddon’s studies in moral sciences convinced him that Rudolf Steiner’s resolution of the main problems of philosophy since Aristotle was correct. After a half century of subsequent work in Anthroposophy, he saw the need for an introductory volume that clearly lays out Steiner’s views without the complications that arise in the context of late nineteenth-century philosophy. This book is the result, intended both for students of Anthroposophy who have no knowledge of philosophy, as well as for students of philosophy who have no knowledge of Anthroposophy.

C O N T E N T S:

Preface

Part 1. Biographical (to Age 27)
1. Childhood
2. Boyhood
3. Youth
4. Vienna

Part 2. Theory of Knowledge (1885–94)
5. Experience
6. The Activity of Thinking
7. The Content of Thought
8. Thinking and Perception
9. The Process of Perception
10. The Act of Knowing

Part 3. Natural Philosophy (1885–84)
11. The Foundations of Science
12. Inorganic Nature
13. Organic Nature
14. Human Nature

Part 4. Moral Philosophy (1885–94)
15. Ethics
16. The Free Spirits
17. Social Aspects
18. Aesthetics
19. Metaphysics
20. The Consequences of Monism

Part 5. Biographical (28–41)
21. Weimar (1889–95)
22. Berlin (1896–1902)

Part 6. From Spiritual Science
23. Historical Aspects
24. Sense-perception and Thinking
25. Pure Thinking
26. Cosmic Ether and Egohood
27. Moral Aspects
28. Self-knowledge

Part 7. Biographical (42–64)
29. Foundations of Anthroposophy (1903–09)
30. Artistic Creativity (1910–16)
31. Social Creativity (1917–23)
32. Final Years (1924–25)

Epilogue

Appendix—Rudolf Steiner’s Inner Life

About the Author

Richard Seddon studied moral sciences (philosophy, ethics, logic, and psychology) with Bertrand Russell and John Wisdom – an advocate and colleague of Ludwig Wittgenstein – at Cambridge.

Additional information

Weight 12 oz
Dimensions 5.2 × 0.5 × 8.2 in
Author

ISBN13

9781902636696

Published

May 2005

Format

Paperback

Pages

144

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