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• Title: Book: PoF: Contents
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  • 8 The Factors of Life 113
• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • seemed to others, Steiner had in fact established a firm foundation for
  • that his intention is to record the facts of everyday experience
  • perceptual, in that it is a picture. In fact, Steiner gives two
  • German. “Actual observation of facts or events” corresponds to the
  • real and concrete as the “actual observation of facts and events”
  • power of the will is in fact desire, and that desire can be transformed
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact (1902),
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • own life with the whole life of the human soul, does in fact
  • the fact, which is apparent from what I have just said, that
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • claims the right to start from the facts that lie nearest to
  • 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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  • patent a fact as freedom. Opposed to them are others who
  • the fact that he is driven by a cause which he cannot help
  • Spinoza, and all who think like him, overlook the fact that
  • on two chief factors, the motives and the character.
  • conduct rises above the sphere of the satisfaction of purely
• 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
  • facts.
  • they do not do justice to the facts. Dualism sees in spirit (I)
  • Materialism can never offer a satisfactory explanation of
  • confronted by two different sets of facts: the material world,
  • Against all these theories we must urge the fact that we
  • to elucidate the actual facts. I have therefore made no
  • my purpose so far has been solely to record the facts of
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • fact that I can rest content with the observation, and renounce
  • we wish merely to establish the fact that we constantly feel
  • Whether thinking or something else is the chief factor in the
  • In sequence of time, observation does in fact come before
  • is a kind of exceptional state. This fact must be properly
  • be quite clear about the fact that, in observing thinking, we
  • different through the fact that I observe it. I myself observe
  • we do not first know whether thinking is in fact able to give
  • last thing at which world evolution has arrived is in fact
  • wrong. Thinking is a fact, and it is meaningless to speak of
  • the truth or falsity of a fact. I can, at most, be in doubt as to
  • the soul, as a fact which presents itself to genuinely unprejudiced
  • Such an objection leaves out of account the fact that only in
  • inaccurate view of the facts. In making it, one forgets that it is the
  • by the “I” itself, must first shut his eyes to the plain facts
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • more than draw our attention to the fact that we have concepts.
  • follows from the simple fact that the growing human being
  • another. In saying this we have in fact characterized this
  • them is determined by the fact that they inhabit the earth.
  • quality. The fact that I see a red surface as red — this
  • On this view, when we take away the fact of its being
  • merely referring to the general fact that the percept is partly
  • to begin with, the fact that I am the stable element in contrast
  • the fact that I know only my mental pictures, not that there
  • train of thought has in fact been characterized by
  • facts seems to be that our senses can transmit only what
  • facts; and over and above this, it fails to see that it confuses
  • This whole theory is wrecked by the fact, already mentioned,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • one, a mental picture, and is in fact the effect upon my soul of things
  • there is, in fact, something which is related to mere perceiving in the way
  • It lies in the fact that
  • to the fact that we are not identical with the world process, but are a
  • The fact that the thinking, in us, reaches out beyond our separate
  • In point of fact, the sought for meaning of the world which confronts me
  • that is to say, his knowledge, which is the determining factor supporting
  • that fact has greater significance than another, we must consult our thinking.
  • limb of its body. The separate facts appear in their true significance, both
  • image a memory-picture. It is in fact the only thing which can justifiably
  • us also to obtain a satisfactory explanation of the way that mental picture
  • world becomes aware of the fact that he creates this relation, at least in
  • in me. Once we have noticed this fact, it is but a step to the opinion: After
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • chief difficulty in the fact that we ourselves are not the outer
  • from these facts? Only this: I perceive an electric shock (or a
  • would not exist at all? Those who, from the fact that an
  • The physiological fact mentioned above cannot therefore
  • factors in our surroundings.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • experience and then shutting one's eyes to the fact of the
  • satisfactory explanation of how matter and motion produce
  • arise for us through the fact that a sphere of percepts,
  • due to purely subjective factors), the dualist is therefore
  • factors which even for this realm have no absolute
  • validity, but only relative. He thus splits up the two factors
  • experience as realities. The fact that his hands can grasp
  • is, in fact, the first axiom of the naïve man; and it is
  • from the perceptible things are in fact unjustified hypotheses
  • factor as the percept. If we are to avoid the contradiction of
  • A law of nature is in fact nothing but the conceptual
  • factors? How can I, in any case, draw conclusions from my
  • human being? The fact that people can understand and get
  • from a sufficiently large number of perceptual facts the
  • character of the thing-in-itself which underlies these facts.
  • human nature it is a relevant fact that in physics one has to
  • but also by the fact that from this immediate perception
  • perception there should be another sphere — in fact a far
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • The Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
  • Factors of Life
  • content to our life. In fact the naïve realist holds that the
  • appears to us, does not yet contain its second factor, the
  • purely ideal factor, is just as much mere object of perception
  • constituent factor of the world.
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • to be contradicted by patently obvious facts. For ordinary experience, human
  • which arise through the fact that the thinking prepares its manifestation by
  • driving force. The motive is a factor with the character of a concept or a
  • mental picture; the driving force is the will-factor belonging to the human
  • organization and directly conditioned by it. The conceptual factor, or
  • motive, is the momentary determining factor of the will; the driving force
  • is the permanent determining factor of the individual. A motive for the will
  • is, on the subjective and objective factors of experience, on my inner
  • here involved is simply called instinct. The satisfaction of our
  • the percept, as in fact happens in our conventional social behaviour. The
  • mental picture of this “good” but to the fact that everyone who
  • The decisive factor of an intuitively determined action in any concrete
  • individual impulses. General standards always presuppose concrete facts from
  • which they can be derived. But the facts have first to be created by
  • factor. If I, or someone else, reflect upon such an action afterwards, we can
  • cannot be the mere fact of my having conceived the idea of an action, but
  • Nevertheless intuition may still be wholly or partly the determining factor
  • no more than that I belong to the general species man; it is the fact
  • but an outcome of practical experience. But in fact it cannot be
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • that are working in me. I believe myself free; but in fact all
  • spiritualism, in fact in any kind of metaphysical realism
  • fact unfree. But monism attaches as much significance to the
  • and in fact, usually of a few outstanding ones who, as their
  • fact; for the second kind, it is the moral life. Both will put
  • But in fact this is not at all true. It is only that nowadays
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • only by means of the conceptual factor. For the perceptual
  • factor of the effect simply does not exist prior to the perceptual
  • factor of the cause. Anyone who declares that the
  • factor in the blossom which is established in it by his thinking.
  • The perceptual factor of the blossom is not yet in
  • concept, in fact the concept of the effect. But in nature we
  • rejecting the concept of purpose for extra-human facts, takes
  • process. He should be protected from this by the fact that in
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • arises through the fact that, as regards their content, moral
  • arises because, as scientists, we start with the facts before us,
  • ourselves first create the facts which we then get to know.
  • fact, he maintains only that men have developed out of
  • the free act of will consists in the fact that, firstly, through
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • 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
  • since Hartmann does not deny the presence of an ideal factor (wisdom) in the
  • 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
  • In fact, just the opposite is correct. Striving (desiring) in itself gives
  • 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
  • correct valuation of life, to clear out of the way those factors which
  • sexual enjoyment is a source of evil, we are misled by the fact that the
  • dependent on factors other than pleasure.
  • of a toy factory in his account at a quarter of their actual amount on the
  • ground that the factory produces nothing but playthings for children.
  • calculated by his accountant are confirmed by the facts. If this does not
  • fact that the world purpose mentioned above (page 177) can be achieved only
  • striving after pleasure cannot lead to any satisfaction. Man, whose
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • free individuality seems to be contested by the fact that he makes
  • determined solely by the mere fact that she is a woman. She
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • concept, are we in fact dealing with something purely
  • factors. One factor presents itself to perception, the other to
  • in fact, it considers a perceptual content without an ideal
  • objective factors lying beyond our experience and which are
  • experience, the fact of borrowing having been overlooked by
  • Thus thinking is characterized as that factor through
  • is in fact an experience of spirit. Therefore it appears
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • itself in my consciousness through the fact that while
  • knowledge; he cuts himself off from the facts by a tissue of
  • whereas in fact