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• Title: Book: PoF: Contents
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  • 2 The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge 13
  • 3 Thinking in the Service of Knowledge 21
  • 7 Are there Limits to Knowledge? 89
• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • curriculum, he always came back to the problem of knowledge itself.
  • a theory of knowledge out of his own striving after truth, one which
  • As a student, Steiner's scientific ability was acknowledged when he was
  • The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception.
  • overcome. He did not stop at the problem of knowledge, but carried his
  • immediate knowledge with conviction, but deals only with subjective
  • Truth and Knowledge,
  • knowledge of the spirit, and now he felt able to pursue his researches in
  • his knowledge of the spiritual world until he could reach the point of
  • of knowledge and morality that philosophers had raised, argued
  • fields, so that Steiner's treatment of the problem of knowledge is still
  • results. (see fn 4) Here Steiner's path of knowledge can
  • anything that is not clearly scientific — a basis for knowledge, for
  • self-knowledge, for moral action, for life itself. It does not “tell us
  • knowledge, we must find a point of view which will lead the ego to
  • in unknown worlds forever beyond the reach of our knowledge,
  • since limits to knowledge exist only in so far as we fail to awaken
  • of which he must develop merciless knowledge of himself and selfless
  • of freedom as a Pauline theory of knowledge.
  • them as translators, “their thorough knowledge of philosophy and
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• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • which can support the rest of knowledge; and further, that
  • the knowledge thus acquired, he may then, as desire or
  • that a kind of knowledge which proves its justification and
  • for such knowledge. What I have said in this book may
  • every kind of knowledge, leads to the view that man lives in
  • In this book the attempt is made to show that a knowledge
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no
  • Again, we do not want any knowledge of the kind that has
  • ascend to a knowledge of the whole universe. We strive after
  • certainty in knowledge, but each in his own way.
  • nowadays cram knowledge into it, but we try to develop its
  • living whole. There must be a knowledge which seeks in the
  • that knowledge itself shall become organically alive. The
  • separate sciences are stages on the way to that knowledge we
  • in life. Then we do not merely have knowledge about things,
  • but have made knowledge into a real self-governing organism;
  • that slumber within us. Knowledge has value only in so far
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
  • Knowledge
  • knowledge of them, is absolutely ignored.
  • What does it mean to have knowledge of the reasons for
  • soul, it is impossible to form a concept of knowledge about
  • anything, and therefore of knowledge about an action. When
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
  • Knowledge
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  • to be dissatisfied. And our thirst for knowledge is but a
  • own essential nature, to acknowledge nothing of spirit except
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
  • Knowledge
  • in the service of Knowledge
  • that without thinking, the philosopher can gain no knowledge
  • is quite independent of our knowledge of the physiological
  • human knowledge on the principle: I think, therefore I am.
  • gaining knowledge of Nature. For Nature is there already,
  • could create without first having knowledge of it would be a
  • knowledge of it, we would never come to it at all. We must
  • knowledge of it. For the observation of thinking, we ourselves
  • by means of thinking, we can gain knowledge of the world,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
  • Knowledge
  • which we gain knowledge of our thinking through observation
  • does not say that my knowledge is limited to my mental
  • pictures. He limits my knowledge to my mental pictures
  • Kantian view which limits our knowledge of the world to
  • knowledge, to begin with, is limited to our mental pictures.
  • knowledge of them. On the other hand, the knowledge which
  • knowledge which goes beyond mental pictures as being open
  • Theory of Knowledge.
  • that we can have direct knowledge only of our mental
  • Physiology shows that there can be no direct knowledge
  • Berkeley Principles of Human Knowledge,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
  • Knowledge
  • unknown to me, the real problem of knowledge is naturally concerned not
  • existence at all, then his search for knowledge through the medium of mental
  • of which all striving for knowledge is simply meaningless. For him there can
  • knowledge, of one's own personality. The critical idealist then comes to
  • kindle as earnest desire for knowledge, in so far as it was a means
  • the manner in which I obtain my knowledge of these elements.
  • the fundamental desire for knowledge in us. Beings without thinking do not
  • knowledge.
  • that is to say, his knowledge, which is the determining factor supporting
  • of knowledge, who appears as an individual through his identity with the
  • of our knowledge. An observed object of the world remains unintelligible to
  • “thing-in-itself” which is inaccessible to knowledge.
  • knowledge. The very existence of this craving for knowledge about the
  • acknowledge as truth, we could never experience this craving.
  • Knowledge is called transcendental in the sense
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
  • Knowledge
  • self-knowledge, and pleasure and pain with the perception of
  • be a whole, and for him knowledge of things will go hand in
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
  • Knowledge
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  • and knowledge transforms it into a unity. A philosophy
  • Dualism rests on a false conception of what we call knowledge.
  • concept is inaccessible to our knowledge; we can know only
  • impassable barriers to our faculty of knowledge. The follower
  • have defined it, that one cannot speak of limits to knowledge.
  • for itself, is our thirst for knowledge satisfied — the I has then
  • Thus the conditions necessary for an act of knowledge to
  • itself the problems of knowledge; and moreover it takes them
  • In our knowledge we are concerned with questions which
  • cannot speak of a limit to knowledge. It may be that, at any
  • concerned in the process of knowledge, namely percept and
  • therefore splits up the process of knowledge into two parts.
  • to direct knowledge; according to him, man can obtain only
  • knowledge, etc.) he regards as analogous to what he does
  • Hence naïve realism is compelled to acknowledge, in addition
  • metaphysical realist has made up his mind to acknowledge,
  • perception, another sphere for which this means of knowledge
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • of ourself “knowledge”, then, assuming the above supposition
  • the purely ideal element of knowledge. From his point of
  • percepts, appear prior to knowledge. At first, we have merely
  • presented with existence directly, in knowledge only
  • feeling, rather than knowing, the instrument of knowledge.
  • what it ought to gain through knowledge; that it wants
  • feeling becomes the principle of knowledge. This kind of
  • as saying that we have two sources of knowledge, thinking
  • thinking, the two modes of knowledge, perceiving and
  • is accessible to knowledge, there is said to be a real principle
  • of knowledge, also to external perception.
  • realism, and must acknowledge that the will is a universal
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • The process looks different when we examine knowledge, or rather the
  • relation of man to the world which arises within knowledge. In the preceding
  • the moral authority that we acknowledge (the head of the family, the state,
  • determined by the knowledge of them. Such requirements are
  • acknowledges this principle strives to do whatever, in his opinion, most
  • act. I act, at this level of morality, not because I acknowledge a lord over
  • me, or an external authority, or a so-called inner voice; I acknowledge no
  • duty excludes freedom because it does not acknowledge the individual
  • only to be confirmed by knowledge afterwards. Man must unite his concept
  • our organization between percept and concept; knowledge overcomes this
  • two-fold nature by means of knowledge, the moral life overcomes it through
  • we cannot acknowledge it as the absolute standpoint in morality. For the
  • this is so, remains, in his knowledge of man, at the point where natural
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • naïve man, who acknowledges as real only what he can
  • acknowledges for some other reason to be a power over him.
  • reality, cannot acknowledge freedom because he sees man
  • knowledge other than those that apply to men
  • human knowledge, is conditioned by human nature. And
  • just as beings of a different order will understand knowledge
  • either the idea of knowledge or the idea of freedom in a true
  • valid knowledge and the individual experience of it.
  • nineteenth century is outmoded in knowledgeable circles.
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • effective moral activity depends on knowledge of the particular
  • in the same sense in which any kind of knowledge can be
  • In so far as knowledge of the objects within our sphere of
  • upon such knowledge. What we are concerned with here are
  • can become objects of knowledge only after they have been
  • it become an object of knowledge.
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • knowledge arises when a man finds that something is missing from the world
  • interval, it is content with the hope of fulfillment, we must acknowledge
  • its very nature, does not allow itself to be influenced by this knowledge.
  • Anyone who does not acknowledge this must first drive out of man all that man
  • such, according to the standard of his own will. It no more acknowledges a
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • for the knowledge we get when a human individuality tells
  • the knowledge we get from the content of his acts of will.
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • accessible to our self-knowledge, more particularly in moral
  • knowledge demands, and through which it seeks entry into
  • and what is demanded by the urge for knowledge. The single
  • the knowledge accessible to experience, a second kind of
  • knowledge which transcends experience and shows how the
  • knowledge of the freedom of intuitive thinking. And once we
  • self-sustaining experience within the process of knowledge. It
  • demands that we acknowledge that this thinking, in conjunction
  • the whole spirit of this argument that for human knowledge
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • possible positions in the theory of knowledge.
  • human consciousness. This implies a lack of critical knowledge.
  • knowledge; he cuts himself off from the facts by a tissue of