Written 1884-1885; first published 1886 (CW 2)As the editor of Goethe's scientific writings during the 1880s, Rudolf Steiner became immersed in a worldview that paralleled and amplified his own views in relation to epistemology, the interface between science and philosophy, the theory of how we know the world and ourselves. At the time, like much ......
Comparing the lived world with the ideal world, noted American philosophical naturalist, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) seeks in this influential compilation of his earlier works to outline the ancient ideal of a well-ordered life, one in which reason is the organizing force that recognizes the need to allocate science, ......
Offers answers for core epistemological questions about the nature of belief, the character and structure of evidence, the determinants of evidential quality, the relation of justification, probability, and truth, among others.
The theme of Humanity on the Threshold is spiritual development. This deepens our resilience as unusual experiences come our way from across the outer and inner thresholds of our consciousness. As the boundaries that limit our ordinary consciousness break down, ways open up for exploring personal development. Guidelines are suggested for ......
Written in 1909 (CW 13) -- Three-volume Slipcased Set This masterwork of esotericism places humankind at the very heart of the vast, invisible processes of cosmic evolution. When we use the term "natural science," don't we mean that we are dealing with human knowledge of nature? Steiner worked and reworked his Rosicrucian cosmology to make ......
What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology-the study of ignorance-provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ......
Seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement. This title deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility. It discusses the apparent teleology in nature's design of organisms, that is, organisms display a complex inter-working of parts, which are subordinated as means to serve the purpose of the whole.
In light of the centenary of the Christmas Conference 1923/24, Peter Selg has written the four essays published here, which deal, each in its own way, with the past, present, and future of the Anthroposophical Society and its School for Spiritual Science.
This demanding set of lectures attempts to lift the veil from modern social and spiritual problems as experienced in the contrasts between East and West. By ascribing only vague and subjective validity to human thinking, modern science tries to invalidate the very faculty that gives us our human dignity.
