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• Title: Book: PoF: Cover Sheet
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
• Title: Book: PoF: Contents
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
• Title: Book: PoF: Introduction by Michael Wilson
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • equivalents for the terms of German Philosophy.”
  • terms are rarely exact equivalents of German philosophical terms, and
  • subsequent chapters without being troubled by ambiguous terms.
  • reason all the terms used must convey a real meaning to the reader,
  • Indeed, Steiner states clearly that the terms he uses do not always
  • described. The following notes explaining certain of the terms used
  • view in terms of English philosophy would have to deal with the
  • Steiner's exact observations in this realm may help to prevent the terms
  • element, and uses the term “perception” to include the whole
  • “representation” remains a specialist term with
  • Since “mental picture” is here used to explain the term
  • and it is this intermediate position between percept and concept that
  • Another advantage of the term “mental picture” is that the verb
  • Of course the visual term “picture” must be understood
  • class of ideas, here the term “idea” is used only for the German
  • writings “Imagination” becomes a special term to indicate this
  • normal English usage, though Steiner uses the term in an exact
  • deed. An “unconscious motive” is really a contradiction in terms,
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• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
• Title: Book: PoF: Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894; revised, 1918
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter One: Conscious Human Action
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • action are precisely and fixedly determined by something else.
  • determined by external causes to exist and to act in a fixed and
  • determined by external causes to exist and to act in a fixed and
  • are determined. Thus the child believes that he desires milk of
  • determined from without, that is to say, by the circumstances
  • arouses a desire in him, then he appears as determined from
  • free means to be able to determine one's life and action by
  • wills, because his wanting is determined by motives. He cannot
  • the concept of motive. Without a determining motive the
  • determined by the strongest motive. But on the other hand
  • the causes which determine the donkey's volition are internal
  • is the skull of the ass. ... The determining causes are not visible
  • We do not perceive the causes by which our will is determined,
  • hence we think it is not causally determined at all.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Two: The Fundamental Desire for Knowledge
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • thus nothing more than the story, in philosophical terms, of
  • find my discussion “scientific”, as this term is used today.
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Three: Thinking in the service of Knowledge
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • determined by the direction and velocity of the first. As long
  • those thoughts and thought-connections determine that
  • taken into account when we come to determine the relationship
  • relation to others before we can determine in what sense it
  • definite, self-determined content of the thinking activity.
  • it appears. No, whoever is determined to see in thinking
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Four: The World as Percept
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • and self-determined nature of thinking cannot,
  • help of thinking am I able to determine myself as subject
  • that he determines himself as an individual confronting the
  • I do not choose the term “sensation”, since this has a
  • physiological sense of the term. Even my feeling becomes
  • them is determined by the fact that they inhabit the earth.
  • “qualitative”. The former determines the proportions
  • qualitative determination — depends on the organization of
  • determined by the organization of myself as subject. The
  • should also be able to determine what character it must
  • They determine our percepts, each according to its own
  • by so many intermediate links with the external
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Five: The Act of Knowing the World
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • through an infinite number of intermediate stages. The picture which
  • The all important thing now is to determine how the being that we ourselves
  • are is related to the other entities. This determination must be distinguished
  • myself must be distinguished from determining myself by means of thinking. Just
  • that is to say, his knowledge, which is the determining factor supporting
  • relations in conceptual terms, but I can never perceive how a percept
  • subject can be termed “subjective.” To form a link between something
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Six: Human Individuality
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • his own special way. This special determination results for
  • Distinct from this determination is another which depends
  • special, fully determined entity. Each of us combines
  • remains over when we have allowed fully for all the determining
• Title: Book: PoF: Knowledge of Freedom: Chapter Seven: Are There Limits to Knowledge?
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • transferring to entities behind the perceptible realm determining
  • Monism holds that percepts are determined through
  • thinking the means for canceling this self-produced determination.
  • build up out of my subjectively determined percepts and my
  • character of our conclusion is, after all, determined only by
  • metaphysics has a character determined by this basic method,
  • nature of this reality he thinks he can determine by inductive
  • determined by the range of his senses, and that he would be
  • terms of concepts commonly used in this field. The strengths
  • case can only contain half the reality, as determined by the
  • Man's being, quite concretely, is determined not only by
  • the term, are not necessary in order to have percepts in
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eight: The Factors of Life
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • determined elements, which, however, are related to one
  • perception of self is ideally determined by this something in
  • thinking, and the ideally determined elements are the concepts
  • life, determines our personality. Through it we lead a purely
  • beings. This determination of our life would remain a purely
  • conceptual (logical) one, if no other determinations of our
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Nine: The Idea of Freedom
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • concept and percept is determined by thinking, indirectly and objectively,
  • motive, is the momentary determining factor of the will; the driving force
  • is the permanent determining factor of the individual. A motive for the will
  • individual and determining him to action in a particular direction. But one
  • nature and situation in life. My characterological disposition is determined
  • determines the aim or the purpose of my will; my characterological
  • disposition determines me to direct my activity towards this aim. The mental
  • picture of taking a walk in the next half-hour determines the aim of my
  • which the single percept releases the act of will. This kind of determination
  • minds as patterns which determine all subsequent decisions; they become parts
  • regard to any definite perceptual content. We determine the content of a
  • which determines our action indirectly by way of the conceptual thinking.
  • determine the content of his egoistical striving in accordance with what he
  • determined by the knowledge of them. Such requirements are
  • coincide; that is, neither a predetermined characterological disposition nor
  • external impulse, but it is an action determined purely and simply by its
  • and the special situation, and yet at the same time be determined by
  • allow itself to be determined by them. The content is used only to
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• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Ten: Freedom - Philosophy and Monism
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • as being determined, mechanically or morally, by a
  • directorate, foreign to him and determining him according
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Eleven: World Purpose and Life Purpose
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • of cause and effect where the earlier event determines the
  • picture to determine one's action. Thus the later (the deed)
  • necessary to have an ideal, law-determined connection
  • mission in the world is not predetermined, but is at every
  • determined and conditioned by an idea of this limb, floating
  • natural object, be it plant, animal or man, is not determined
  • intermediary stages.
  • that an animal or a man is not determined by an idea floating
  • not determined by an idea floating in the air, but it definitely
  • is determined by an idea inborn in it and constituting the
  • denies that natural beings are determined from without
  • are not determined by purpose and plan from without, but
  • to a law, may, if he wish, apply the same term to the objects
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Twelve: Moral Imagination
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • is thought of as being directly determined only by the
  • natural course of evolution terminate with the ape, and allow
  • like must be determined by observation of men themselves.
  • accord to determine by moral imagination those mental
  • or merely inferred extra-mundane God) determines my
  • “It is perfectly true that the will is always determined by
  • to one's own strength and determination.” In deed it can! It is
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Thirteen: The Value of Life
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • exterminate the will. Schopenhauer's pessimism leads to complete inactivity;
  • to determine clearly whether, up to the moment of his enquiry, there has
  • cause the pleasure. But if I want to determine the value of life in the
  • presuppose something else which already determines the positive or negative
  • Here we touch the point where reason is not in a position to determine
  • should exterminate egoism by making it see the hopelessness of its case.
  • that the value of a pleasure is determined in life. It is measured by
  • quantities of pleasure and pain resulting from an instinct. I determine the
  • task of determining the surplus of pleasure or pain in the world starts from
  • scientifically estimated, and the balance of pleasure thereby determined. It
  • determines the value of life by measuring achievements against aims. An
  • inclination with mere duty, will consequently determine the value of man by
  • time, however, we find that an act of will may also be determined by factors
• Title: Book: PoF: Reality of Freedom: Chapter Fourteen: Individuality and Genus
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • his actions a content that is determined by the position he
  • Each member of a totality is determined, as regards its
  • will behave, are determined by the character of the racial
  • only in terms of itself. If a man has achieved this emancipation
  • from all that is generic, and we are nevertheless determined to
  • explain everything about him in generic terms, then we have no
  • respects it is determined not as it should be by the particular
  • determined solely by the mere fact that she is a woman. She
  • beings whose activity is based on free self-determination.
  • Determining the individual according to the laws of his genus
  • individual. Just as little is it possible to determine from the
  • he determines himself, in their pure form (without mixing
• Title: Book: PoF: Ultimate Questions: The Consequences of Monism
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • determines the percept as having the abstract form of a
  • in which he lives for the grounds determining his will,
  • unless he finds it more convenient to let himself be determined
  • out the commands of others, then he will be determined by
  • himself and determined by nothing else. It is true that this
  • impulse is determined ideally in the unitary world of ideas;
  • ultimate determinant of his action. He is free.
• Title: Book: PoF: Appendix Added to the new edition, 1918
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a
  • come to terms with those points of view he has not discussed
  • Are things continuous or intermittent in their
  • is “intermittent”,
  • possibilities of perception), but on the other hand, intermittent (as
  • so that he ought to think of the things before him as intermittent.
  • appear as intermittent reveal themselves as continuous as
  • regarded as intermittent, if — which is not the case —
• Title: Book: PoF: Translator's Note
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  • be termed freeness. This freeness is a self-starting, self-directing
  • activity of a spiritual sort. Here, the term spiritual is used in a