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- Title: Book: PoF: Contents
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- Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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- Hartmann's reaction was typical; instead of accepting the discovery that
- self-knowledge, for moral action, for life itself. It does not “tell us
- goes on to show that we can also know the causes of our actions,
- activity, on action, on thinking and feeling that arise from the individual
- English usage, meaning the reason that a person has for his action.
- was the reason for the action, though the person acting was not
- characterize all possible levels of action from the purely instinctive
- “spring of action”. While this is legitimate philosophical usage, I
- the origin or source of the action, which is the motive. Of course, at
- the higher levels of action there is no other driving force than the
- motive, from whatever it is in us that throws us into action whenever
- not conscious of the driving force behind our actions, we cannot be
- action. Thus the final triumph of Steiner's path of development
- desire but less than overt action. It is less obvious when dealing
- with the genesis of one's own actions, but the tendency to attribute
- action that I may have, but I cannot choose how these desires come
- Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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- All science would be nothing but the satisfaction of idle
- Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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- Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
- Conscious Human Action
- sphere of human action and thinking. One and the same
- worthy of the name. The moral valuation of human action and
- other of two possible courses of action. There is always, so
- possible actions, we carry out just one and no other.
- action are precisely and fixedly determined by something else.
- to carry out an action when impelled thereto by any reason.
- It is only because man is conscious of his action that he
- man not only is conscious of his action, but also may become
- is it justifiable to lump together actions of this kind with
- those in which a man is conscious not only of his actions but
- also of the reasons which cause him to act? Are the actions of
- motive of action which I recognize and see through, is to be
- action only if his character is such that this mental picture
- action and an unconscious urge, then the conscious motive
- will result in an action which must be judged differently
- one's action? Too little attention has been paid to this
- free means to be able to determine one's life and action by
- applied to the actions of human beings. Modern science loves
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- Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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- special instance of this dissatisfaction. We look twice at a
- act upon matter, so as to translate its intentions into actions?
- comes to action, we have to translate our purposes into
- shall attempt no speculations concerning the interaction of
- Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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- more than a subjective reaction of our organism to these
- forces of attraction and repulsion. If I put my hand on a
- the eye. It arises first through the interaction of the eye and
- of the eye, and that from this interaction my mental picture
- Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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- among objects; its movements and actions are so far known to him in
- as a movement of the body. The act of will and the action of the body are
- Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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- could come into existence through their interaction.”
- real; the single idea of the tulip is to him an abstraction, the
- oneself in abstractions, one will realize that for a knowledge of
- Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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- but the lifeless abstraction, the corpse of the living thinking.
- If we look only at this abstraction, we may easily find ourselves
- Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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- individual and determining him to action in a particular direction. But one
- individuals differently. They stimulate different men to different actions.
- picture or concept into a motive of action or not, will depend on whether it
- action. But this mental picture is raised to the level of a motive for my
- here involved is simply called instinct. The satisfaction of our
- driving force of such action is called tact or moral good taste.
- The more often such immediate reactions to a percept occur, the more the
- force of an action. When I see a starving man, my pity for him may become the
- driving force of my action. Such feelings, for example, are shame, pride,
- action through mere reflection. Mental pictures become motives because, in
- mental pictures of actions that they themselves have carried out in a similar
- typical pictures of actions have become so firmly connected in our minds with
- which determines our action indirectly by way of the conceptual thinking.
- action is pure thinking. As it is the custom in philosophy to call the
- discussing, the practical a priori, that is, an impulse to action
- point of an action, I enter upon the act of will irrespective of whether I
- immediately before the action, that is, irrespective of whether it was
- Since a real act of will results only when a momentary impulse to action, in
- feelings; they assert, for instance, that the aim of moral action is to
- the feeling itself does not yet exist in the moment of action; it has first
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- Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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- moral life, also, a basis for action that shall be perceptible to
- basis for his action to him in a way that his senses can
- understand. He is ready to allow this basis for action to be
- myself the author of my action, it is the matter of
- my actions are nothing but the result of the material processes
- absence of external compelling motives ... Our action is
- for his actions in a corresponding spiritual force. He will see
- materialistic dualist makes man an automaton whose actions
- impulses of action which are derived from so-called
- asserts that the action of a fellow man is done unfreely, then
- act; and if he bases his assertion upon causes of action lying
- According to the monistic view, then, man's action is
- does not see, behind man's actions, the purposes of a supreme
- Monism, then, in the sphere of true moral action, is a
- says, “Our action is necessitated as is our thinking”, has
- processes, but not to action or to being; and if he were to
- Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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- of human actions. One performs an action of which one has
- picture to determine one's action. Thus the later (the deed)
- actions. Hence this is the only sphere in which the concept of
- subjective actions, is an element well suited for such invented
- with the sole exception of human action. It looks for laws of
- with that of subjective human action. For purpose to exist, it
- enable themselves to regard everything outside human action
- — and thence human action itself — as no more than a natural
- for the spiritual world, lying outside human action, it is
- Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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- it the basis of an action, lies in the world of percepts given
- the only impulses to action. He makes a completely first-hand
- one in particular, and then to translate it into action. But his
- action will belong to perceptible reality. What he achieves
- quite definite particular actions for the consciousness of the
- certain actions. Laws take on the form of general concepts
- only when they forbid actions, but not when they prescribe
- form belongs to laws for inhibiting actions: Thou shalt not
- Whenever the impulse for an action is present in a general
- picture of the action (the relation of the concept to a content
- of the free spirit's action. Therefore it is only men with
- action does not create percepts, but transforms already
- general. Moral action, then, presupposes, in addition to
- out of their imagination, the not-yet-existing actions of the
- action is necessary for acting morally, our action depends
- The functioning of the organism occurs without any action
- and then get to know them, whereas in moral action we
- for free individual action. The consistent evolutionist cannot
- can state only that the present form of moral action
- characterizing of an action, that is, whether it is a free one,
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- Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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- direction that human action must follow in order to make its contribution to
- or will. Eternal striving, ceaseless craving for satisfaction which is ever
- Satisfaction, when it occurs, lasts only for an infinitesimal time. The
- dissatisfaction and suffering. If at last blind craving is dulled, then all
- alleged satisfaction turns out on closer inspection to be illusion.
- income, love (sexual satisfaction), pity, friendship and family life,
- satisfaction. Soberly considered, every enjoyment brings much more evil and
- individual satisfaction (egoism) is a folly, and that he ought to be guided
- To strive for satisfaction means that our activity reaches out beyond the
- pain. But from this we must not conclude that pleasure is the satisfaction
- of a desire, and pain its non-satisfaction. Both pleasure and pain can be
- striving after pleasure cannot lead to any satisfaction. Man, whose
- actions. Otherwise creation would be purposeless. And it is extra-human
- greater than the available means of satisfaction, and that the enjoyment of
- of life. If only a part of the needs of a living creature finds satisfaction,
- fraction, of which the numerator is the pleasure actually experienced while
- the denominator is the sum total of needs. This fraction has the value 1
- are fully satisfied. The fraction becomes greater than 1 when a creature
- desires. But the fraction can never become zero as long as the
- have seen, the value of the pleasure of satisfaction will be the greater,
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- Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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- his actions a content that is determined by the position he
- Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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- same way, it looks for the sources of action within the world
- for our actions lay in the will of such a being. What was not
- of two abstractions drawn from experience. Exactly
- beyond our given world is an abstraction to which no reality
- such ideas monism regards as abstractions borrowed from
- aims of our action be derived from an extra-human Beyond.
- moral imagination. The idea that realizes itself in an action
- action, but human intuitions belonging to this world itself.
- directs our actions from outside. Man finds no such primal
- actions. He is thrown back upon himself. It is he himself who
- must give content to his action. If he looks outside the world
- he must give up action altogether, or else he must act for
- only in man himself. If an idea is to become action, man must
- ultimate determinant of his action. He is free.
- reality of human action. For this purpose it was necessary to
- actions in which, on the basis of unprejudiced self-observation,
- one can speak of freedom. These are actions that
- represent the realization of ideal intuitions. No other actions
- freedom as the distinguishing feature of all actions proceeding
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