Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path

by Steiner, Rudolf

• ISBN13: 9780880103855
• ISBN10: 088010385X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Ingram Book Co

Summary

Here Rudolf Steiner provides a path from ordinary thinking to the practice and experience of living thinking. Considered by many to be his most important work.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	vii
Introduction	xiii
Gertrude Reif Hughes
Preface to the Revised Edition, 1918	1	(4)
PART I: THEORY
The Knowledge of Freedom
Conscious Human Action	5	(13)
The Fundamental Urge for Knowledge	18	(9)
Thinking in the Service of Understanding the World	27	(22)
The World as Percept	49	(24)
Knowing the World	73	(24)
Human Individuality	97	(7)
Are There Limits to Cognition?	104	(23)
PART II: PRACTICE
The Reality of Freedom
The Factors of Life	127	(8)
The Idea of Freedom	135	(28)
Freedom-Philosophy and Monism	163	(10)
World Purpose and Life Purpose (Human Destiny)	173	(7)
Moral Imagination (Darwinism and Ethics)	180	(14)
The Value of Life (Pessimism and Optimism)	194	(31)
Individuality and Genus	225	(18)
FINAL QUESTIONS
The Consequences of Monism	231	(12)
Appendices (1918)	243	(16)
Bibliography	259	(4)
Index	263