Name: The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception (Cw 4)
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Wilson, Michael
ISBN: 9781855842564

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The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception (Cw 4)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Translated by

Michael Wilson

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.4 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9781855842564

Synopsis "The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception (Cw 4)"

Written in 1894 (CW 4)Are we free, whether we know it or not? Is any notion of individual freedom merely an illusion? Steiner tackles these age-old questions in a new and unique way. He shows that, by considering our own activity of thinking, we can realize the reasons for everything we do. And if these reasons are taken from the realm of our ideals, our actions are free, because only we determine them.The question of freedom cannot be settled by philosophical argument. Nor is it simply granted to us. If we want to be free, we must work through our own inner activity to overcome unconscious urges and habitual thinking. To accomplish this, we must reach a point of view that recognizes no limits to knowledge, sees through all illusions, and opens the door to an experience of the reality of the spiritual world. Then we can achieve the highest level of evolution--we will recognize ourselves as free spirits.Rudolf Steiner Press published this series of re-edited, re-typeset, and re-designed editions of the classic, authorized translations of Rudolf Steiner's foundational books, printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies and sewn-bound in high-quality cloth, finished with colored end papers and a bookmark ribbon.This volume is a translation of Die Philosophie der Freiheit (GA 4) from German by Michael Wilson.

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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