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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • Steiner was deeply disappointed at the lack of understanding it received.
  • his knowledge of the spiritual world until he could reach the point of
  • Steiner deals in turn with each possible point of view,
  • philosophical points of view, dating back to
  • knowledge, we must find a point of view which will lead the ego to
  • our thinking to the point where it becomes an organ of direct perception.
  • the strictly Steiner point of view”. He wrote in his preface as
  • point of view of an Englishman's philosophy. This might be an
  • broader in scope. Any work describing Steiner's point of
  • point where it becomes the faculty of actually perceiving the
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • but will point to a field of experience in which man's inner
  • again I have asked myself whether I ought not, at this point
  • tendencies, from the point of view of the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • Others, too, start from the same point of view in combating
  • This leads us straight to the standpoint from which the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • are. Neither of these two points of view can satisfy us, for
  • And thus he is back again at his starting point. How
  • can point this way out to us. We have, it is true, torn
  • to the riddle. We must reach a point where we can say to
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • Observation and thinking are the two points of departure
  • evolution of the world will not be decided at this point. But
  • the same moment observe this. I must first take up a standpoint
  • If someone is not willing to take this standpoint, then one
  • its connections and relationships. A firm point has now been
  • The feeling that he had found such a firm point led the
  • point upon which everything turns. The very reason why
  • can be no more fundamental starting point than thinking
  • regard my own thinking from any point of view other than
  • the starting point for my study of the world. When Archimedes
  • whole cosmos from its hinges, if only he could find a point of
  • point. Naturally it is not possible to create thinking before
  • he has to seek the starting points not for the creation
  • first point of attack, can he reach his goal. This absolutely
  • our starting point is in any case a doubtful one. It would be
  • In the preceding discussion I have pointed out the significant
  • willed, the point that matters is that nothing is willed which,
  • “I” itself which, from its standpoint inside the thinking,
  • is being freshly lit by an unknown hand at every point where
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • thinking my starting point,
  • stands thinking, ready to begin its activity as soon as a point
  • I have of it depends essentially on just this viewpoint. In the
  • point. The circle is completed. I believe that I am cognizing
  • the external percept — of which, from my naïve standpoint,
  • my color percept by pointing to the process which takes
  • sensation. At the point of transition from brain process to
  • idealism, in contrast to the standpoint of naïve consciousness
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • From this point of view, he is concerned not with
  • trouble themselves further about it. From this point of view, even one's
  • Both these points of views have this in common with naïve realism, that
  • beyond this standpoint can be only this, that we ask how thinking is related
  • to be a line which is produced when a point moves according to a particular
  • presented not only a sequence of visual percepts at different points but,
  • issues from the center of the world, but rather at a point in the periphery.
  • the universe the moment we became conscious. But since we stand at a point in
  • In point of fact, the sought for meaning of the world which confronts me
  • of a body, whose affections are, for the intellect, the starting point for
  • conceptual intuition that corresponds to this percept. From this point of view,
  • reflections. This is the point of view from which the arguments of the
  • in so far as it is a mental picture in me. With this opinion, the standpoint
  • relation to the world, is abandoned. So long as he keeps that standpoint,
  • such as the naïve point
  • Yet one cannot remain at the standpoint of naïve
  • relation of man to the world shows that this naïve point of view must be
  • abandoned. If the naïve point of view yielded anything we could
  • merely abandon the naïve point of view while unconsciously retaining the
  • attitude based on this naïve standpoint,
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• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • It is the particularized concept which points to the
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • is confronted by a sphere of concepts pointing to the totality
  • from the standpoint of naïve realism. And because naïve
  • self-deception. The main point is that all the results of
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • the purely ideal element of knowledge. From his point of
  • gradual development that we attain to the point at which the
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • point of an action, I enter upon the act of will irrespective of whether I
  • a moral concept only if I take the standpoint of a particular moral
  • the end united. We may call this point of view ethical
  • action is conceivable only from the standpoint of ethical individualism.
  • is quite immaterial from a certain point of view. Only let us not assert that
  • The standpoint of free morality, then, does not declare the free spirit to
  • 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
  • this point was added or rewritten for the 1918 edition.
  • (from the point of view of metaphysical realism) may be found in
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • still as an unfree being until he comes to the point where he
  • who must nevertheless be described as such from the point
  • of view put forward in this book. The point is not whether
  • materialist; but the point is whether he develops concepts
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • is perceptible, attempts — as we have repeatedly pointed out —
  • himself are unjustified assumptions from the standpoint of
  • monistic point of view, untenable.
  • in the air is a misleading way of putting it, and the point of
  • can nowhere point to concepts acting as causes; the concept
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • What are we to say, from this standpoint, about the
  • view, but yet he misses the decisive point. In so far as I am an
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • bad and evil may, from a higher point of view, be seen to be good, for it
  • Whoever starts from this point of view will find it easy to lay down the
  • share to the other good in the world. From this optimistic standpoint, then,
  • pain of disappointed hope, and that thus, in the end, the pain of
  • If the point is simply to weigh quantity of pleasure against quantity of
  • point where we know how we are to set out our accounts, what we are to put
  • Here we touch the point where reason is not in a position to determine
  • point where hunger ceases, everything that the instinct for food craves has
  • extend his assertion to nature outside man as well, he can point to the
  • Anyone who still needs to be educated to the point where his moral nature
  • this objection just misses the main point. If freedom is to be realized, the
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • Whoever remains at this standpoint sees a part of the
  • right to expect, from the point of view that this purely
  • the point of view of
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • come to terms with those points of view he has not discussed
  • survey the matter from the point of view of the spiritually
  • Firstly, one remains at the naïve point of view, which
  • own consciousness. Whoever remains at this point of view,
  • The only possible standpoint is the third, transcendental
  • my point of view to be — must in reality accept one of these
  • expression of opinion on these points, and will, moreover,
  • relapse into naïve realism. But then, I have already pointed
  • The point of view of