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• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • was able to bring a new understanding to Goethe's scientific work through
  • Steiner was deeply disappointed at the lack of understanding it received.
  • physics. But this would be to misunderstand the nature of philosophy.
  • understanding of others. He must, through his own labors,
  • the translator's standing problem is to avoid, or at least to minimize,
  • the original translation has been to help the reader to understand the
  • which will be strong enough to stand up to the overwhelming desire to
  • idea which stands as the motive, but in order to follow the development
  • at least understand how it could come to be written. That it can be a
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • of chapters. The misunderstandings of my argument which
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • external standards but springs from the inner life of the
  • Attempt to Compel the Readers to Understand.” Today
  • nobody should be compelled to understand. From anyone
  • understand, but will want to understand.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • This leads us straight to the standpoint from which the
  • the science of man. To what misunderstandings this view
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • cannot, therefore, understand how they can interact with one
  • which can be ranged on the side of spirit, there stands directly
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • which stand in a certain relation to the objects and events
  • the same moment observe this. I must first take up a standpoint
  • not stand at all in the same relation to its object as the
  • If someone is not willing to take this standpoint, then one
  • But here again I cannot know more than just how it stands in
  • usually escapes our attention. But the way we stand in
  • to understand the world starting from this basis. We
  • when the philosopher tries to understand consciousness he
  • with creating the world but with understanding it. Accordingly
  • of the world but for the understanding of it. It seems to me
  • he seeks to understand. The world creator had above all to
  • has to seek a secure foundation for his attempts to understand
  • task of this book. I can understand anyone doubting whether,
  • “I” itself which, from its standpoint inside the thinking,
  • observes its own activity. The “I” would have to stand
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • concepts certainly do not stand isolated from one another.
  • A closer analysis shows matters to stand very differently
  • stands thinking, ready to begin its activity as soon as a point
  • in the first instance that it stands in the form which he sees,
  • I stand at one end of an avenue, the trees at the other end,
  • where I stand. My percept-picture changes when I change
  • all the same to the avenue wherever I stand. But the picture
  • observation is the easiest one to understand. The matter
  • object has led to the greatest misunderstandings in modern
  • the external percept — of which, from my naïve standpoint,
  • 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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  • How it stands with the former will appear later on in the course of this
  • beyond this standpoint can be only this, that we ask how thinking is related
  • but stands altogether aloof from them and contemplates them. The picture
  • and our understanding, can grasp only single concepts out of a connected
  • Were we to know it at its source, we should understand the whole riddle of
  • the universe the moment we became conscious. But since we stand at a point in
  • causality unites; they do not stand in the relation of cause and effect;
  • myself as subject remains perceptible to me after the table which now stands
  • “Ego-in-itself” standing behind the percept of the subject, but the
  • through it in order to understand the aberration
  • to understand the confusion to which every first effort at reflection about
  • 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,
  • Yet one cannot remain at the standpoint of naïve
  • attitude based on this naïve standpoint,
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • Thus the mental picture stands between percept and concept.
  • each of us from the place where we stand in the world, from
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • standing apart and opposed.
  • from the standpoint of naïve realism. And because naïve
  • human being? The fact that people can understand and get
  • of the underlying causes. We believe that we can understand
  • organization, as in any way setting a standard for reality.
  • question of how he stands in the world of reality is untouched
  • must clearly understand that every perceptual picture of the
  • elaborated concept. “Senses”, as we ordinarily understand
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • to stand before us as full reality. Thus, for monism, feeling
  • conceptual understanding of the world is inadequate. Both
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • understanding of this observation leads to the insight that thinking can be
  • understand the reason why a particular maxim of behaviour should act as a
  • death to all individual impulses of action. For me, the standard can never
  • a moral concept only if I take the standpoint of a particular moral
  • individual in each of us, notwithstanding the universality of the world of
  • (standards, laws) in so far as these result from the generalization of the
  • individual impulses. General standards always presuppose concrete facts from
  • want to understand how a man's action arises from his moral will, we
  • because he accepts certain moral standards, his action is the outcome of the
  • moral standard is my immediate guide, but my love for the deed. I feel
  • Those who defend general moral standards might reply to these arguments that
  • misapprehension of my argument, is this: If we want to understand the nature
  • standards play their rightful part. The goal consists of the realization of
  • under the obligation of a moral standard, is felt to be unfree.
  • element but demands that this be subject to a general standard. Freedom of
  • action is conceivable only from the standpoint of ethical individualism.
  • understanding of moralism. Such a moralist believes that a social community
  • What this kind of moralist does not understand is just the unity of the
  • observation, then in its own sphere universal standards rather than
  • meet one another in like striving, in common intent. A moral misunderstanding,
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • understand. He is ready to allow this basis for action to be
  • have become independently existing standards. There they
  • to actual experience. These extra-human moral standards
  • reflection of a higher order standing behind it.
  • and in fact, usually of a few outstanding ones who, as their
  • standards) as necessary preparatory stages of morality, but it
  • just as beings of a different order will understand knowledge
  • If we really understand how ideas are intuitively experienced
  • because they misunderstand it as a merely abstracting
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • himself are unjustified assumptions from the standpoint of
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • Ethics as a science that sets standards, in addition to this,
  • Some people have wanted to maintain the standard-setting
  • standard thus cannot start, like a law of nature, by being
  • moral imagination by the standard of traditional moral
  • science that understands itself: for observation shows that
  • What are we to say, from this standpoint, about the
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • share to the other good in the world. From this optimistic standpoint, then,
  • world, but rather gives it equal standing with blind urge (will), he can
  • nauseating. This again shows that desire is the standard by which we measure
  • act, that is, in accordance with the standard of his ethical intuitions; and
  • such, according to the standard of his own will. It no more acknowledges a
  • of will with a standard of behaviour in an external way, but in what arises
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • It is impossible to understand a human being completely
  • may choose to set himself. If we would understand
  • willing, then, if we would understand him in his essence, we
  • intuition; but if we are to understand a free individuality we
  • person, can never arrive at the understanding of an
  • understand what is generic.
  • stand, in the hope that there are readers who appreciate how
  • a standard other than the de-individualizing of man through
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • Whoever remains at this standpoint sees a part of the
  • which remain within it. If thinking understands itself it will
  • understands itself. Monism does not deny ideal elements,
  • man's inwardly experienced spiritual activity. To understand
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • I can well understand that there are readers who are
  • understand how another person's soul life can affect one's
  • The only possible standpoint is the third, transcendental