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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity
By Rudolf Steiner
Length7h 34m
About this audiobook
"The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity", written in 1894, is a fundamental treatment of Steiner's philosophical outlook.
Together with "Truth and Science" and "The Riddles of Philosophy" it might be considered as one third of a philosophical trilogy.
The emphasis of the book is not on “freedom” as ordinarily understood, but is on “freiheit” or what might be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term “spiritual” is used in a sense not incompatible with the use of the word in the tradition of the German idealistic school of philosophy. This seminal work asserts that free spiritual activity - understood as the human ability to think and act independently of physical nature - is the suitable path for human beings today to gain true knowledge of themselves and of the universe.
Of all of his works, "The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity" is the one that Steiner himself believed would have the longest life and the greatest spiritual and cultural consequences.
It was written as a phenomenological account of the results of observing the human soul according to the methods of natural science.
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GenrePhilosophy, Spirituality and Religion, Politics and Government
Length7 hrs 34 mins
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Publish dateMay 13, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface To The Revised Edition, 1918
2The Conscious Human Deed
3The Fundamental Urge For Knowledge
4Thinking In The Service Of Understanding The World
5The World As Perception
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6The Act Of Knowing The World
7The Human Individuality
8Are There Limits To Knowledge?
9The Factors Of Life
10The Idea Of Freedom
11Philosophy Of Freedom (Spiritual Activity) And Monism
12World Purpose And Life Purpose (The Destination Of Man)
13Moral Imagination (Darwinism And Morality)
14The Value Of Life (Pessimism And Optimism)
15Individuality And Species
16The Consequences Of Monism
17First Appendix (Addition To The Revised Edition Of 1918)
18Second Appendix
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