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• Title: Book: PoF: Cover Sheet
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  • BASIS FOR A MODERN WORLD CONCEPTION
• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception.
  • think that “spirit” was merely a concept existing in the human mind,
  • Goethe's Conception of the World
  • lend little support to these concepts, but seems rather to lead to a
  • the concept of mind to include all our experiences through thinking, the
  • concepts of spirit and soul have practically dropped out of everyday
  • and the concepts “spirit” (Geist) and
  • to Steiner's concepts of spirit and soul. For Steiner, the spirit is
  • CONCEPT and PERCEPT are the direct equivalents of
  • Wahrnehmung. The concept is something grasped by thinking, an
  • appropriate concept had been attached to it, but to the content
  • of observation devoid of any conceptual element. This includes
  • that one cannot deal with a sensation devoid of any conceptual
  • The mental picture which the thinker forms to represent the concept in
  • something conceptual, in that it is mental, and the sense of something
  • and another as an “individualized concept”
  • and it is this intermediate position between percept and concept that
  • “fuller, more saturated, more comprehensive concepts”
  • conscious motive, Steiner uses the word to include all concepts in
  • idea, or concept, and creating a vivid mental picture of how it can
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• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • of these arid concepts into concrete life. I am indeed fully
  • of concepts if one would experience every aspect of existence.
  • have been artists in the realm of concepts. For them,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • the concept of free will. The germs of all the relevant
  • wanting it. The concept of wanting cannot be divorced from
  • the concept of motive. Without a determining motive the
  • in the animal world to clarify the concept of freedom as
  • soul, it is impossible to form a concept of knowledge about
  • cannot be analysed away into cold concepts of the intellect.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • again. The materialistic conception cannot solve the problem;
  • instance the work of this “I” in the conceptual elaboration
  • of the world of ideas. Hence a world-conception that inclines
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • observation. The purpose of my reflection is to form concepts
  • of the occurrence. I connect the concept of an elastic
  • ball with certain other concepts of mechanics, and take into
  • second process which takes place in the conceptual sphere.
  • all search for concepts if I have no need of them. If
  • I have brought the concepts Ball, Elasticity, Motion, Impact,
  • conceptual process unable to take place without my
  • obliged to seek for concepts and connections of concepts,
  • the concepts together with the objects. That I am myself
  • the agent in the conceptual process may be an illusion, but
  • event with a conceptual counterpart?
  • before, and after, the discovery of the corresponding concepts.
  • the help of concepts. I see the first billiard ball move towards
  • discovered the concepts corresponding to the pattern of
  • “I” and “Not-I”, idea and will, concept and matter,
  • in conceptual form and thus use thinking. He therefore
  • of observation. As little as we can form a concept of a horse
  • fancies, mental pictures, concepts and ideas, all illusions and
  • concept formed by thinking. I am conscious, in the most
  • positive way, that the concept of a thing is formed through
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • thinking, concepts and ideas arise.
  • What a concept is cannot be expressed in words. Words can do no
  • more than draw our attention to the fact that we have concepts.
  • concept of the object. The more our range of experience is
  • widened, the greater becomes the sum of our concepts. But
  • concepts certainly do not stand isolated from one another.
  • concept “organism”, for instance, links up with those of
  • “orderly development” and “growth”. Other concepts
  • unity. All concepts I may form of lions merge into the
  • collective concept “lion”. In this way all the separate concepts
  • combine to form a closed conceptual system in which
  • from concepts.
  • comprehensive concepts. I must attach special importance
  • and not concepts and ideas which
  • therefore, be simply transferred to concepts. (I make special
  • who regards the concept as something primary and original.)
  • Concepts cannot be gained through observation. This
  • only slowly and gradually forms the concepts corresponding
  • to the objects which surround him. Concepts are added to
  • look for the concept which fits this observation. It is this
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • concept. Why should this concept belong any less to the whole plant than
  • a perceiving subject, but the concept appears only when a human being
  • and air in which the leaves and blossoms can unfold. Just so the concept
  • receive the concept at the same time as, and united with, the percept. It
  • would never occur to such a spirit that the concept did not belong to the
  • thing. It would have to ascribe to the concept an existence indivisibly
  • corresponding concepts, but to our mental organization. Our whole being
  • and our understanding, can grasp only single concepts out of a connected
  • conceptual system. This separating off is a subjective act, which is due
  • another. There is only one single concept of “triangle”.
  • It is quite immaterial for the content of this concept whether it is grasped
  • prejudice prevents one from seeing that the concept of a triangle that my
  • head grasps is the same as the concept that my neighbor's head grasps. The
  • naïve man believes himself to be the creator of his concepts. Hence he
  • believes that each person has his own concepts. It is a fundamental
  • The one uniform concept of “triangle” does not become a
  • beings the concept rises up when they confront the external thing. It is
  • the total reality. The other side is the concept. The act of knowing is the
  • synthesis of percept and concept. Only percept and concept together constitute
  • ideal system of our concepts and ideas.
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • thinking, which relates one to the other by means of concepts.
  • thought system, a definite intuition, a concept, connects
  • particular percept; it is a concept that was once connected
  • this percept. My concept of a lion is not formed out of my
  • concept of a lion to someone who has never seen a lion.
  • Thus the mental picture is an individualized concept.
  • concept and percept. By means of a percept, the concept
  • reference to the percept as a characteristic feature, the concept
  • the same concept connects itself, we recognize the second as
  • same thing a second time, we find in our conceptual system,
  • not merely a corresponding concept, but the individualized
  • concept with its characteristic relation to the same object,
  • Thus the mental picture stands between percept and concept.
  • It is the particularized concept which points to the
  • has the greater number of individualized concepts will be the
  • because he lacks the concepts which he should bring into
  • experience. He can, it is true, acquire concepts by one means
  • living in abstract conceptual systems are alike incapable of
  • Reality shows itself to us as percept and concept; the
  • concept and mental picture.
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • the percept and the concept gained by thinking, into the
  • contrast to the unified whole composed of percept and concept.
  • Dualism rests on a false conception of what we call knowledge.
  • playing with concepts. We construct an artificial pair of
  • and concept must be relegated to the sphere of unjustified hypotheses.
  • borrowing. Otherwise it remains an empty concept, a non-concept
  • which has nothing but the form of a concept. Here
  • concept is inaccessible to our knowledge; we can know only
  • of experience into the concept of the thing-in-itself, it
  • working as he does with a completely empty concept of the
  • of a monistic world conception knows that everything he
  • It follows from the concept of the act of knowing as we
  • is confronted by a sphere of concepts pointing to the totality
  • concept, into four: (1) the object in itself; (2) the precept
  • concept which relates the precept to the object in itself. The
  • combination of percept with concept and the reference of the
  • concept to the object, takes place, according to him, within
  • believes his concepts to be merely subjective representatives
  • conceptual representatives of the objectively real. The bond
  • conceptual representative.
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • thinking, and the ideally determined elements are the concepts
  • conceptual (logical) one, if no other determinations of our
  • concepts, but also, as we have already seen, through feeling.
  • Therefore we are not beings with a merely conceptual
  • concept or idea. This is why, in actual life, feelings, like
  • concept of self emerges from within the dim feeling of our
  • we have described, strives to grasp through concepts, the
  • conceptually), it relates the percepts to itself, and itself to
  • thinking which only grasps the event afterwards in conceptual
  • conceptual understanding of the world is inadequate. Both
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • our cognition, the concept of the tree is conditioned by the percept of
  • particular concept from the general system of concepts. The connection of
  • concept and percept is determined by thinking, indirectly and objectively,
  • at the level of the percept. This connection of the percept with its concept
  • otherwise must always appear apart, namely, concept and percept. If
  • we fail to see this, we shall be unable to regard the concepts which we have
  • driving force. The motive is a factor with the character of a concept or a
  • organization and directly conditioned by it. The conceptual factor, or
  • may be a pure concept, or else a concept with a particular reference to a
  • percept, that is, a mental picture. Both general concepts and individual
  • and the same concept, or one and the same mental picture, affects different
  • An act of will is therefore not merely the outcome of the concept or the
  • make-up the characterological disposition. The manner in which concept and
  • pictures is itself conditioned by the sum total of those concepts which
  • picture or concept into a motive of action or not, will depend on whether it
  • immediately present mental picture or concept, which becomes the motive,
  • are capable of turning certain mental pictures and concepts into motives,
  • and (2) the possible mental pictures and concepts which are in a position to
  • without the intervention of either a feeling or a concept. The driving force
  • pictures. A mental picture or a concept may become the motive of an
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • Being as communicating to him the conceptual content of his
  • hidden behind percept and concept. If anyone
  • conception both from the mundane fetters of naïve moral
  • light. For those who think of their concepts as merely
  • concept. It is a characteristic feature of the essential nature
  • materialist; but the point is whether he develops concepts
  • implied a concept which is applicable only to material
  • think his concept through to the end, he could not help but
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • described as the overcoming of the concept of purpose
  • must distinguish percept from concept. The percept of the
  • their corresponding concepts. The percept of the effect
  • only by means of the conceptual factor. For the perceptual
  • between the later and the earlier, but the concept (law) of the
  • perceptible process. A perceptible influence of a concept upon
  • actions. Hence this is the only sphere in which the concept of
  • simply invents them. The concept of purpose, valid for
  • concept of purpose disappearing from the sciences. In
  • rejects the concept of purpose in every sphere,
  • The supporters of the concept of purpose believe that, by
  • When the opponents of the concept of purpose set a laboriously
  • concept, in fact the concept of the effect. But in nature we
  • can nowhere point to concepts acting as causes; the concept
  • rejecting the concept of purpose for extra-human facts, takes
  • the side of those thinkers who, by rejecting this concept,
  • spiritual one. If here the concept of purpose is rejected even
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • which lead him to select from the sum of his concepts just
  • The concept will have to realize itself in a single
  • concrete occurrence. As a concept it will not be able to contain
  • same way as a concept is in general related to a percept, for
  • example, the concept of the lion to a particular lion. The link
  • between concept and percept is the mental picture
  • certain actions. Laws take on the form of general concepts
  • here given, to the Tax Office at X! and so on. Conceptual
  • conceptual form (for example, Thou shalt do good to thy
  • picture of the action (the relation of the concept to a content
  • this translation of the concept into a mental picture is always
  • concepts for the existing world than to evolve productively,
  • that he could get the concept of the reptile, with all
  • its characteristics, out of his concept of the proto-amniotic
  • be possible to derive the solar system from the concept of the
  • Kant-Laplace nebula, if this concept of a primordial nebula
  • ones, and that once we have been given the concept of the
  • but on no account should he agree that the concept attained
  • can certainly see the connection between later moral concepts
  • get the concept of reptiles out of the concept of the
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • concepts alone but through the interpenetration of concepts and percepts
  • an ethical world conception that expects a devotion to unselfish aims in
  • purposes that such a world conception has in mind. Each one of us has to
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • if one takes the concept of genus as the basis of one's
  • begins. The conceptual content which man has to connect
  • get his concepts through his own intuition. How the individual
  • kind of generic concept. It depends simply and solely on the
  • abstract thoughts and generic concepts is but a preparation
  • must cease to call to our aid any concepts at all of our own
  • concept with the percept by means of thinking. With all
  • other objects the observer must get his concepts through his
  • must take over into our own spirit those concepts by which
  • our own conceptual content with them). Those who immediately
  • mix their own concepts into every judgment about another
  • violently such an objection runs counter to the concept of freedom
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • the network of the conceptual world. As soon as this happens,
  • life of the cosmos. The unity of the conceptual world, which
  • percept with concept the full reality is conveyed. Only as
  • concept, are we in fact dealing with something purely
  • subjective. But the content of a concept, which is added to the
  • If someone cannot see that the concept is something
  • with nature. An abstract concept taken by itself has as little
  • reality that is given objectively, the concept the part that is
  • nothing but abstract concepts. Reality is not contained in the
  • abstract concept; it is, however, contained in thoughtful
  • concept or percept alone, but rather the union of the two.
  • means of abstract conceptual hypotheses (through pure
  • conceptual reflection), but in so far as we find the ideas that
  • concept and percept. It does not spin a system of metaphysics
  • out of mere abstract concepts, because it sees in the concept
  • conceptual content of the world is the same for all human
  • the unitary world of concepts there are not as many concepts
  • only one. And the concept that A fits to his percept of the
  • experienced, arises from a misconception on the part of
  • A concept that is supposed to be filled with a content lying
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• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • concepts. They can leave this short statement unread. But in
  • conceptual structures with inferences from the conscious to
  • observation; instead of which they insert an artificial conceptual