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  • Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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    • given a sure foundation without basing it upon imposed rules of conduct.
    • 1914-18 war, he showed how the social sphere could be given new life
    • thankful for all that he had given them of his spiritual revelation,
    • give a firmer basis for natural science than it has ever had before,
    • basis it can give to those who cannot bring themselves to accept
    • give birth to what St. Paul called “the second Adam that was made a
    • change back to the original title are given below
    • but in order to give a sound philosophical basis to the
    • have the precise meanings given in current scientific writings, but
    • Activity” gives the newcomer any indication that the goal of the
    • word “spirit” gives the sense of something more universal, less
    • perceptual, in that it is a picture. In fact, Steiner gives two
    • gives the mental picture its importance in the process of knowledge.
    • of something new. Thus the title given to Chapter 12, Moral
    • In contrast to the content of the percept which is given to us from
    • Later in the book he gives another definition
    • completed. The titles given for Dr. Steiner's books are those of
  • Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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    • nature of man such as will give us a foundation for everything
    • of the soul itself. The answer given to the two problems will
    • will not give a ready-made self-contained answer of this sort,
    • will find that the very contemplation of this region gives him
  • Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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    • The healthy heart is but the glass which gives Creation back.
    • Only the truth can give us assurance in developing our
    • None of us would wish to give a scientific work a title like
    • It is not meant to give “the only possible” path to the truth,
  • Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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    • picture given to him from without, a man believes he is free,
    • Hence it will also be thinking that gives to human action its
  • Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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    • world, of its own accord, gives him. Nature has endowed us
    • above what is immediately given to us in them, splits our
    • bound to put on the world's side the realm of percepts given
    • The senses give us only the effects of things, not true copies,
    • “World”. Goethe has given classic expression to this in his
    • Investigation of our own being must give us the answer
  • Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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    • which are given independently of us. Whether this activity
    • beyond question. We know for certain that we are not given
    • Mere observation can trace the parts of a given event
    • hallucinations, are given to us through observation.
    • is given in exactly the same way as the event which causes it.
    • thing that “it gives me a feeling of pleasure,” I characterize
    • of thinking which I have given here by quoting
    • for I myself give it its certain existence; and that is my
    • such an object in that I think, for I give to my existence the
    • When I weave an independently given object into my
    • no part in their production. They are simply given to me,
    • as it is in itself, is nowhere given to us: the thinking that
    • I believe I have given sufficient reasons for making thinking
    • Now if this answer were given to the world creator when
    • we do not first know whether thinking is in fact able to give
    • which is given to us as the nearest and most intimate. We
    • as this has been given in the preceding discussion. Granted
  • Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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    • us as given; in as far as we think, we appear to ourselves as
    • reflection what relation the immediately given content of
    • A simple reflection gives the answer to this question. When
    • absorbed in the perception of a given object I am for the
    • believes it gives expression to something absolutely certain,
    • gives rise to different percepts. The conclusion from these
    • is the very first thing that is given. In it nothing can any
    • has been constructed. One starts with what is given in naïve
  • Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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    • gives a full account of this line of argument in his work,
    • world. We have then given to us in consciousness, not our real I, but only our
    • of itself? A world of mental pictures which was given to us, and which
    • convinced that the given world consists of nothing but mental pictures,
    • given to me, exists continuously before and after my forming a mental
    • things has already been given
    • accretion which has nothing to do with the thing itself. If I am given a
    • That the stone moves just in a parabola is a result of the given conditions
    • to the objects that they are given us at first without the
    • universe can be given him at any one time. This limited part, however,
    • In thinking, we have that element given us which welds our separate
    • existence and relates itself to the universal world existence, gives rise to
    • the whole world as mental picture, is thus always given through the medium
    • body, this body is given in two entirely different ways: once as a mental
    • they are one and the same, but they are given in two entirely different
    • that thinking is abstract, without any concrete content; it can at most give
    • The mere appearance, the percept, gives me no content which could inform me
    • and ideas. In contrast to the content of percept which is given to us from
    • Except through thinking and perceiving nothing is given to us directly. The
    • air vibrations which transmit sound are given to me as percepts just like the
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  • Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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    • mental pictures. The full reality of a thing is given to us in
    • totality of all that is objective would be given in percept,
    • Making mental pictures gives our conceptual life at once
  • Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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    • We can then say: The world is given to us as a duality,
    • our mental organization that a particular thing can be given
    • which he hypothetically assumes and the things given in
    • of his principle given above.
    • needs for the explanation of any given phenomenon in the
    • its reality can be given through sense perception. In short,
    • the belief in revelation. The God who is given through thinking
    • percept and our concept, the uniting of those two gives us
    • percepts given? What is it that affects the subject?
    • given with the same transparent clearness. Each subsequent
    • The form which the metaphysical realist nowadays gives to
    • possibly have, not one would give him reality if his thinking
    • realization that every percept gives us only a part of the
  • Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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    • simply call the given, and inasmuch as we do not evolve it by
    • percepts, simply given. It is produced by our activity. To
  • Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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    • mental picture affects the characterological disposition of a man gives to
    • gives me joy or pain.
    • mental pictures of certain situations in life that, in any given instance, we
    • force in the will has been given by Kreyenbuehl
    • always asks whether in the given case this or that principle is the more
    • comes first and foremost into consideration. All other motives now give way,
    • cognitive concept of a given situation facing me is at the same time
    • person, gives ethical directions as to how I have to conduct myself. Such a
    • intuition works in a given situation. The sum of ideas which are effective
    • find such a man given to me as a percept; if I now add to this the concept
    • alone can give himself the final polish.
  • Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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    • the purpose and the ordering of destiny that man gives it. To
    • if I connect its parts together in a way that is not given
    • erroneous, we mean that the individual gives himself
  • 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
    • For the unfree spirit, this link is given from the outset.
    • them. Laws concerning what he ought to do must be given
    • here given, to the Tax Office at X! and so on. Conceptual
    • existing percepts and gives them a new form. In order to be
    • wants to give a new form or a new direction. Further, it is
    • to change the given principle into a new one. This part of
    • be given, like the natural laws of the organism. But a later
    • ones, and that once we have been given the concept of the
    • content thus produced is just as much a given thing as
    • reptiles are a given thing for the scientist. Reptiles have
    • the basis of views already given could also be derived from
  • Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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    • world, but rather gives it equal standing with blind urge (will), he can
    • enjoyment gives rise to a desire for its repetition or for a fresh pleasure,
    • my pleasure has given birth to pain. I can speak of pain only when desire
    • In fact, just the opposite is correct. Striving (desiring) in itself gives
    • pleasure. Who does not know the enjoyment given by the hope of a remote but
    • intensely desired goal? This joy is the companion of all labour that gives
    • merchant, after all, will give up his business only when the losses
    • give up the business of life because of the pain involved. What follows from
    • Our desire, in any given case, is directed to a particular object. As we
    • sensation that gives us an equal amount of pleasure. If we are aiming at
    • satisfying our hunger, we cannot replace the pleasure this would give us by
    • gives way to the inevitable, weakens and strives no further. Since our
    • from the mountain top gives me as compared directly with the pain of the
    • represents the value of the pleasure. A further proof is given through
    • the fact that living creatures (including man) give expression to their
    • ones, so I give myself up to the satisfaction of a desire after having
    • empirical proof that pain outweighs joy (if such proof could be given) would
    • myself: What gives me the greatest surplus of pleasure? And I shall most
    • what will give him the greatest happiness. In all other cases we do not base
    • that only when a man has given up the quest for pleasure can he devote himself
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  • Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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    • his appearance as a member of a naturally given totality (race,
    • characteristics of the group to which he belongs, and he gives to
    • uses as a foundation the characteristics that nature has given
    • him, and to these he gives a form appropriate to his own
  • Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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    • our subjective personality. Thinking gives us reality in its
    • reality that is given objectively, the concept the part that is
    • given subjectively (through intuition — see page 73 ff.).
    • connection with the percept. Monism does, however, give
    • from the reality given to us. The God that is assumed
    • beyond our given world is an abstraction to which no reality
    • but he pursues his own individual purposes given him by his
    • must give content to his action. If he looks outside the world
    • he must give up action altogether, or else he must act for
    • reasons that he gives himself out of his world of ideas or that
    • nothing but himself. He must act out of an impulse given by
    • intuitively experienced thinking gives us, that man could
  • Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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    • of the other person as given to me in sense perception; then,
    • of the content of one's own consciousness gives place not to
    • give a different answer to each of these three questions; but



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