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• Title: Book: PoF: Cover Sheet
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  • First German edition, Die Philosophie der Freiheit .. Berlin, 1894
  • First English edition, The Philosophy of Freedom .. London, 1916
• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • following the methods of Natural Science.” He first presented an outline
  • that must allow his recognition as the first Initiate of the age of
  • This book was first translated into English by Professor and Mrs.
  • this first makes its appearance we will call intuition.
  • Hamerling in the first chapter
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • able to take up towards the first problem. An attempt is made
  • only that we have first discovered that region of the soul in
  • I first wrote it down twenty-five years ago. Today, once
  • time to set down the results of spiritual research, but first
  • the first edition. Yet my preoccupation in recent
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
  • Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
  • preface in the first edition of this book. Since it shows the mood
  • spiritual science. Only the very first introductory sentences of
  • this preface (in the first edition) have been altogether omitted
  • The book leads at first into somewhat abstract regions,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • it. At first sight this seems a self-evident truth. And yet the
  • with his character, he must first adopt as a motive a mental
  • even though we ourselves first adopt a mental picture as a
  • from one that springs from blind impulse. Hence our first
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • tree. The first time we see its branches at rest, the second
  • soon as consciousness first dawns in us. But we never cease to
  • When man reflects upon the “I”, he perceives in the first
  • meet with the basic and primary opposition first in our own
  • essay Nature, although his manner may at first sight be considered
  • link. We can find Nature outside us only if we have first
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • determined by the direction and velocity of the first. As long
  • present. That it appears in the first instance to be ours is
  • the help of concepts. I see the first billiard ball move towards
  • thinking. For even thinking we must get to know first
  • that enters the circle of our experience, we first become aware
  • the same moment observe this. I must first take up a standpoint
  • The first observation which we make about thinking is
  • God creates the world in the first six days, and only when it is
  • The same applies to our thinking. It must be there first, if
  • appears on the horizon of my experience, is at first sight
  • impossible to say. Each object must first be studied in its
  • and in order to create it a second time, we must first know
  • could create without first having knowledge of it would be a
  • Were we to refrain from thinking until we had first gained
  • first create an object; the presence of all other objects is
  • we have first observed the process of digestion. This objection
  • make it the object of our study. What we first weave unconsciously
  • troubling himself first and foremost about the correctness of
  • we do not first know whether thinking is in fact able to give
  • We must first consider thinking quite impartially, without
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • are first gained by means of thinking. For these latter already
  • from the way described above. When I hear a noise, I first
  • concept which first leads me beyond the mere noise. If one
  • thinking, and it is thinking that first shows me how to link
  • is such that thinking too, in its first appearance for our
  • in the first instance that it stands in the form which he sees,
  • corrects its picture of the reality, based on first impressions,
  • when a second percept contradicts the first. Every extension
  • My percept-pictures, then, are in the first instance subjective.
  • The first fundamental proposition which the philosopher
  • is the very first thing that is given. In it nothing can any
  • the eye. It arises first through the interaction of the eye and
  • or physical process which is first conducted by the optic
  • enter my consciousness, but is first transferred by the soul to
  • That is the first thing. Here the thought operation starts. If
  • If, assuming the truth of the first circle of argumentation,
  • add new percepts, localized within the organism, to the first
  • First Principles, Part I, 23.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • the ground floor collapses while the first floor is being built, then the
  • first floor collapses also.
  • as ground floor to the first floor in this simile.
  • “things-in-themselves.” The first of these theories may
  • The first step, however, which we take
  • to the objects that they are given us at first without the
  • Man is a limited being. First of all, he is a being among other beings. His
  • first makes its appearance we will call intuition.
  • The view I have outlined here may be regarded as one to which man is at first
  • to understand the confusion to which every first effort at reflection about
  • which will enable one to refute oneself with respect to these first
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • first instance, confined within the limits bounded by my
  • belonging to the same kind as the first; if we come across the
  • Feeling is the means whereby, in the first instance,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • subjects, appears at first as a duality. The act of knowing
  • them, grasping at first only that part of them we have called
  • is, in fact, the first axiom of the naïve man; and it is
  • as expressed in the motto on the title page of his first
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • and ideas. Thinking, therefore, first reveals itself in the
  • is an incomplete reality, which, in the form in which it first
  • percepts, appear prior to knowledge. At first, we have merely
  • from the first indissolubly bound up with our feeling. This
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • belongs to it, and which first allows the full reality to appear, is
  • on the essential nature of thinking. At first sight this seems
  • function: first, it represses the activity of the human organization;
  • I, and act of will, only by observing first how an act of will issues from the
  • The first level of individual life is that of perceiving, more
  • contains, at first, no reference to any definite percepts. If we enter upon
  • the feeling itself does not yet exist in the moment of action; it has first
  • the principle of the general good, he will, in all his actions, first ask
  • comes first and foremost into consideration. All other motives now give way,
  • which they can be derived. But the facts have first to be created by
  • must first study the relation of this will to the action. Above all, we must
  • first, actually separated, to be just as actually united
  • laws of morality are first of all established by definite men, and the laws
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • power in one's own inner life. What man first took to be the
  • thinking will seem to lose all individual life. For the first kind
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • monism. Nothing is purposeful except what man has first
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • the only impulses to action. He makes a completely first-hand
  • of perception) must first be found. For the free spirit who is
  • Moral laws, on the other hand, are first created by us. We
  • ourselves first create the facts which we then get to know.
  • declaring the first statement to be correct but the second to
  • the first time the true one: namely, to decide for oneself the
  • 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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  • All-One applies to himself in order first to divert the inner pain outwards,
  • try to do this in two ways. Firstly, by showing that our desire
  • first place by the quantity of pleasure or pain which it brings, I may nor
  • whether to carry on the business of life or not, one will first demand to be
  • without a fresh supply of food. What a hungry man wants first of all is to
  • Philosophy would first have to convince him that an act of will makes sense
  • desires will first have to make man a slave who acts not because he wants to
  • Anyone who does not acknowledge this must first drive out of man all that man
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • de-individualized, first by the school, and later by war and
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • only for our perception. At first we take this part of the
  • first want it, before it can happen. Such an act of will
  • support in the first part. This presents intuitive thinking as
  • first appeared.
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • first instance, that I have before me when I confront another
  • because in perceiving the other person, firstly, the extinction
  • Firstly, one remains at the naïve point of view, which
  • but only two. All one can say is that, at the first moment,