Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path

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.

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

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