The Science of Knowing

CONTENTS

Preface to the New Edition of 1924

Foreword to the First Edition

A. PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS

1. The Point of Departure

2. The Science of Goethe According to the Method of Schiller

3. The Task of Science

B. EXPERIENCE

4. Determining the Concept of Experience

5. An Indication as to the Content of Experience

6. Correcting an Erroneous Conception of Experience as a Whole

7. Calling upon the Experience of Every Single Reader

C. THINKING

8. Thinking as a Higher Experience within Experience

9. Thinking and Consciousness

10. The Inner Nature of Thinking

D. SCIENCE

11. Thinking and Perception

12. Intellect and Reason

13. The Activity of Knowing

14. The Ground of Things and the Activity of Knowing

E. THE ACTIVITY OF KNOWING NATURE

15. Inorganic Nature

16. Organic Nature

F. THE HUMANITIES

17. Introduction: Spirit and Nature

18. Psychological Knowing Activity

19. Human Spiritual Activity (Freiheit)

20. Optimism and Pessimism

G. CONCLUSION

21. The Activity of Knowing and Artistic Creativity

Notes on the New Edition, 1924