{"id":6903,"date":"2016-08-09T09:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T09:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsbs.wpengine.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=6903"},"modified":"2024-04-26T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:52:29","slug":"mephistopheles-anvil","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/product\/mephistopheles-anvil\/","title":{"rendered":"Mephistopheles&#039; Anvil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"title\" class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"><strong><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">Mephistopheles&#8217; Anvil: Forging a More Human Future<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a world rent by social crises, strife among nations, races, and religions, Mephistopheles&#8217; Anvil sounds an urgent call. It challenges us to see this growing crisis as the result of an assault on the &#8220;ecology&#8221; of the human being. John Alexandra methodically examines how the mechanistic worldview, and the technological world we have created with it, inherently bear two hidden tendencies: to destroy the life of the natural environment and to dehumanize people.<\/p>\n<p>Citing examples from the biographies of historical personalities, Alexandra forcefully demonstrates the positive potential of the life-and-death challenges to our individual humanity that we confront in a world created by our Faustian bargain with technology. When faced with equanimity and courage, these challenges provide the anvil on which we can forge the radiant faculties&#8211;attained, for example, by Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the dissidents under communism&#8211;needed to transform our individual and collective human futures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mephistopheles&#8217; Anvil: Forging a More Human Future In a world rent by social crises, strife among nations, races, and religions, Mephistopheles&#8217; Anvil sounds an urgent call. It challenges us to see this growing crisis as the result of an assault on the &#8220;ecology&#8221; of the human being. John Alexandra methodically examines how the mechanistic worldview, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[6356,6364,6392,6398,45],"product_tag":[],"giftcard-category":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/6903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=6903"},{"taxonomy":"giftcard-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/giftcard-category?post=6903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}