Name: the social future: culture, equality, and the economy
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Monges, Henry B.
ISBN: 9781621480280

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the social future: culture, equality, and the economy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Edited by

Henry B. Monges

Publisher

Steiner Books

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

158

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 14.0 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN

1621480283

ISBN13

9781621480280

Synopsis "the social future: culture, equality, and the economy"

6 public lectures, Zurich, October 24-30, 1919 (CW 332a) In 1919, shortly after World War I, the structure of society and the economy, both in Germany and globally, became a primary concern of Rudolf Steiner. In addition to writing The Threefold Social Order, in which he presented his ideas for social renewal, Steiner also gave lecture courses that year, including The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness (CW 189); Impulses of the Past and Future in Social Events (CW 190); Spiritual-Scientific Treatment of Social and Pedagogical Questions (CW 192); The Esoteric Aspect of the Social Question (CW 193); The Social Question (CW 328); as well as others and the lectures in this book, The Social Future. That year, Rudolf Steiner also published his "Appeal to the German People and the Cultural World," which began: "Resting on secure foundations with the assurance of enduring for untold ages"--this is what the German people believed of their empire, founded half a century ago. Today they can see only its ruins. Deep searching of the soul must follow from such an experience." In The Social Future, Rudolf Steiner presents what he saw as the underlying social problems of his time and offers his approach to solutions for a more successful and equitable social future. What he has to say is remarkably suited to our time, almost a century later. His predictions have come to pass, yet few of his recommendations have been implemented on any large scale. CONTENTS: 1. The Social Question: Equality and the Economy2. Economic Organization on an Associative Basis3. Law and Democracy4. Spiritual Science, Education, and Social Art5. Spirituality, Politics, Economics, and a Threefold Society6. Nations, Globalism, and the Threefold Society The Social Future is a translation of Soziale Zukunft (GA 332a), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 1977.

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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