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• Title: Book: PoF: Contents
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  • 8 The Factors of Life 113
  • 11 World Purpose and Life Purpose
  • 13 The Value of Life
• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • The Course of My Life
  • played a leading part in his life.
  • never stated explicitly what his philosophy of life was, Steiner filled
  • formed the centre of his life's striving was placed before the world.
  • had so far dominated his life. “The further way,” he wrote,
  • The rest of his life was devoted to building up a complete science of
  • 1914-18 war, he showed how the social sphere could be given new life
  • Steiner had spent the rest of his life expounding his philosophy, he
  • of life.
  • self-knowledge, for moral action, for life itself. It does not “tell us
  • the phrase “springs of life”. This immediately causes confusion with
  • experience that the message of the entire book springs to life in a
  • as well as the intellectual life of today. My debt to the previous
  • For an account of the life and work of
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • There are two fundamental questions in the life of the human
  • else that comes to meet us — whether through life
  • gained, is capable of becoming part and parcel of the very life
  • depths of this enigmatical life of ours. Thus it would appear
  • validity by its own inner life as well as by the kinship of its
  • own life with the whole life of the human soul, does in fact
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • Truth seek we both — Thou in the life without thee and around;
  • external standards but springs from the inner life of the
  • of these arid concepts into concrete life. I am indeed fully
  • unacquainted with life's sweetest savors. The oriental sages
  • make their disciples live a life of renunciation and asceticism
  • impressions of life, and to betake oneself into the realm of
  • The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences
  • develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the
  • more to the fullness of life. The scientific specialist seeks
  • the theory become the servants of life itself, of reality. In
  • on concrete individual life. The ideas become powerful forces
  • in life. Then we do not merely have knowledge about things,
  • science and life, not in such a way that man must bow down
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • questions for life, religion, conduct, science, must be felt by
  • free means to be able to determine one's life and action by
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • striving of mankind. The history of our spiritual life is a
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • current of my life, observation of the thinking itself
  • ordinary mental and spiritual life.
  • on in our ordinary life is none other than this, that it is due
  • in the ordinary course of life thinking does arise within
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • life you have had countless experiences of disturbance among
  • of the world. We see this in everyday life, as well as in the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • without a life which is dreamed about, and without a spirit which is having
  • For the person who believes that he recognizes our immediate life to be a
  • life must lose all academic interest for him. But whereas all learning must
  • life would be like a dream, and the discovery of the true state of affairs
  • to our waking conscious life. Whoever takes this view fails to see that
  • to here. He accepts life as it is, and regards things as real just as
  • significance in its life would appear equal in value to the most important
  • individual life.
  • in the world and is directed towards his inner world, the life of his
  • appears to enter through the life of his mental pictures, we cannot escape
  • himself by having to interpose his life of mental pictures between the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • merely thinking and perceiving beings, our whole life would
  • One might be tempted to see in the life of feeling an
  • to this is that the life of feeling, after all, has this richer
  • whole my life of feeling can have value only if, as a percept of
  • Our life is a continual oscillation between living with the
  • of our own life and allow our feelings to resound with our
  • Making mental pictures gives our conceptual life at once
  • the range of percepts peculiar to our place in life.
  • A life of feeling, wholly devoid of thinking, would gradually
  • hand with the development and education of the life of
  • concepts gain concrete life.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • would still remain impossible to derive the rich concrete life
  • world of atoms. And then astonishment arises that real life
  • through our place in life, we are prevented from perceiving
  • life-principle permeating the organic body, the soul for which the
  • on with one another in practical life leads the metaphysical
  • life.
  • other things are excluded. Just as it is necessary for life that
• 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
  • life, determines our personality. Through it we lead a purely
  • beings. This determination of our life would remain a purely
  • life was expended in establishing purely ideal relationships
  • content to our life. In fact the naïve realist holds that the
  • personality lives more genuinely in the life of feeling than in
  • concept or idea. This is why, in actual life, feelings, like
  • indirectly. The cultivation of the life of feeling, therefore,
  • The I, through its thinking, shares the life of the world in
  • but the lifeless abstraction, the corpse of the living thinking.
  • “full of life”. We should then find it strange that anyone
  • thoughts”. But if we once succeed in really finding life in
  • ever moving experience of this life of thinking, let alone be
  • soul should appear lifeless and abstract. No other activity of
  • too readily leaves us cold in recollection; it is as if the life
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • his life a definite moral or ethical stamp.
  • content of our subjective life, that is, by the content of our mental
  • have, in the course of my individual life, come into contact with percepts,
  • nature and situation in life. My characterological disposition is determined
  • especially by my life of feeling. Whether I shall make a particular mental
  • is, if during my past life I have formed the mental pictures of the sense
  • For our moral life the former represent the driving force, and the
  • The driving force in the moral life can be discovered by finding out the
  • elements of which individual life is composed.
  • The first level of individual life is that of perceiving, more
  • individual life in which perceiving translates itself directly into willing,
  • this way. The main characteristic of instinctive life is the immediacy with
  • of the will, which belongs originally only to the life of the lower senses,
  • The second level of human life is feeling. Definite feelings accompany
  • The third level of life amounts to thinking and forming mental
  • the course of life, we regularly connect certain aims of our will with
  • mental pictures of certain situations in life that, in any given instance, we
  • The highest level of individual life is that of conceptual thinking without
  • characteristic of this level of life. The dearest account of this driving
  • regards as the good things of life (luxury, hope of happiness, deliverance
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • moral life, also, a basis for action that shall be perceptible to
  • moral life, again in a perceptible way — whether it be, for
  • power in one's own inner life. What man first took to be the
  • is a life of suffering, believes that this Divine Being has
  • in every moment of his life, it regards the dispute as to
  • ideas which come to realization in the moral life, and are of
  • thinking will seem to lose all individual life. For the first kind
  • fact; for the second kind, it is the moral life. Both will put
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • Purpose and Life Purpose(The Ordering of Man's Destiny)
  • the manifold currents in the spiritual life of
  • But even purposes of life not set by man
  • effective only in man. Therefore human life can only have
  • the question: What is man's task in life? there can be for
  • my journey through life with fixed marching orders.
  • thousand discomforts and distresses of this mortal life, there
  • paradise where life faces no death, growth no decay, with all
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • longer regulate life, for they have already regulated it. They
  • rules from the organism's requirements in life as a basis for
  • moral life is not comparable with the life of the organism.
  • observer, endowed with a sufficiently long span of life.
  • continuous supernatural influence upon moral life (divine
  • over into moral life.
  • regard the free moral life as the spiritual continuation of
  • organic life.
  • conditions of life demand both a different bodily and also a
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • Value of Life(Optimism and Pessimism)
  • to the question concerning the purpose of life, or the
  • The other view maintains that life is full of misery and want; everywhere
  • life is worth living. It must stimulate us to co-operative participation.
  • entire remaining content of our life is unsatisfied craving, that is,
  • observation of life he hopes to discover whether pleasure or pain
  • income, love (sexual satisfaction), pity, friendship and family life,
  • and of art, hope of a life hereafter, participation in the progress of
  • would, if asked, wish to live through this miserable life a second time. Now,
  • is, however, nothing but God's pain itself, for the life of the world as a
  • whole is identical with the life of God. An all-wise Being can, however, see
  • the annihilation of all existence. The moral life of men, therefore, will
  • supply of fresh means of life in the form of nourishment. The striving for
  • pleasure. But the opposite is the case. To have no striving in one's life
  • von Hartmann maintains that, “though the value of the life of every person
  • algebraic sum from all the collected emotions in his life — or, in other
  • words, that his total estimate of his own life, with regard to his
  • correct valuation of life, to clear out of the way those factors which
  • been a surplus of pleasure or of pain in his life, then he has to free
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • too little of what is individual. In practical life this does less
  • A man's activity in life is governed by his individual capacities
  • characteristics of animal life and from domination by the
  • activity of mankind originates. In other words, the moral life
  • character of her sex, a woman is able to shape her life individually,
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • of the cosmos keep the wheel of our life revolving.
  • life of the cosmos. The unity of the conceptual world, which
  • divine life, common to all, in reality itself. The ideas of
  • merely following his life of sensuous instincts or carrying
  • may attribute a self-sustaining essence to the life of intuitive
  • percept is something that, on our journey through life, we
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • understand how another person's soul life can affect one's
  • well as of himself comes to life. In these moments of coming
  • to life the two people are as little enclosed within their own