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• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Back Cover
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  • of fields of Learning.
  • learning in the ancient ones.”
• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Introduction
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  • they become symptoms rather than the objects of the search. The search
  • philosophical thinking appears in human history. Philosophical
  • appear.
  • from which we can learn to participate in this transformation
  • clearly comprehensible without any preconceived ideas. Steiner's
  • earlier philosophical books did not seem to imply any such
  • presuppositions and his anthroposophical works therefore appear to
  • mark a definite departure from his earlier philosophical ones.
  • It is indeed significant that the anthroposophical works appear only
  • Steiner's bibliography shows that it is only after twenty years of
  • spirit appears on the scene. The purely philosophical publications
  • work presents clearly the climax of Steiner's philosophy and it should
  • years before the books appear that contain the result of his spiritual
  • clearly begin the series of his distinctly anthroposophic works.
  • earlier books.
  • To the casual reader it could appear that there was a distinct break
  • conception. He clearly states that knowledge derived from a higher
  • his early philosophical publications. His deep concern was the
  • At this time Steiner's anthroposophical books had appeared in which
  • concern. Thus the long war between Realism and Nominalism appears in a
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• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Introductory Remarks to the 1914 Edition
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  • of the philosophical problems. The last sixty years represent the age
  • philosophical works, had been intended. The opinion appears to be
  • experiences of the human soul as well as the results of the research
  • adequate to bring fulfillment to the search of modern philosophy, he
  • wanted to search without bias for the conception expressed in this
• Title: Book: RoP: Guiding Thoughts on the Method of Presentation (Pt1 Ch1)
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  • speak as a philosopher, there will, nevertheless, immediately appear
  • achievements of these men as philosophers thus appear as the
  • result of the author's research, they were naturally in his mind
  • reader, however, it can be important to learn not only at the end of
  • age shows an essentially different character from that of earlier
  • be dated earlier than the Greek civilization. What may at first glance
  • the soul of the earth, until it breaks forth into the light.
  • the first seven or eight hundred years after the foundation of
  • experience of its self-dependence. It now begins to search for what it
  • the reality of thought life. One has learned to feel the life of
  • of philosophical search, philosophy derived its powers from the
• Title: Book: RoP: The World Conception of the Greek Thinkers (Pt1 Ch2)
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  • personality appears in the Greek intellectual-spiritual life in whom
  • imagines the earth in the picture of a winged oak around which Zeus
  • living soul in a way different from earlier times. For the
  • earlier world view, the word, “soul,” did not yet have the
  • thinkers want to speak clearly about it (in the form of thought) and
  • they attempt to characterize it in intellectual terms. Men of earlier
  • at first hearing seem to be exaggerated. But only through these
  • that this view can be found again in Goethe in his younger years,
  • an earlier time felt without transforming his soul experience into the
  • the new form of consciousness appears only in the newly emerging
  • and earth — come into being on the one hand, and on the other, a
  • of fire, air, water and earth, and the more soul-like and spirit-like
  • As these three primordial entities appear in Pherekydes, they remind
  • appears as a personality in whom the “birth of thought life”
  • this stage of thought development, this feeling was not clearly
  • expressed. But what one now, in retrospect, can clearly state with
  • Mothers.” A look at the world as it appears illustrates what kind
  • expressed in the pernicious effects of the weather, earthquakes, etc.
  • destructive earthquake, must spring from the same source as the
  • rules in the earthquake as in the blessed rain of spring. In the
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• Title: Book: RoP: Thought Life from the Beginning of the Christian Era to John Scotus Erigena (Pt1 Ch3)
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  • They probably had not been composed much earlier, but they do go back,
  • not in their details but in their characteristic features, to earlier
  • world is revealed in many human beings. During human life on earth, to
• Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Middle Ages (Pt1 Ch4)
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  • the later Middle Ages. In St. Augustine, the new element appears as if
  • search for the ego-entity. This fact, however, is not always brought
  • clearly to the consciousness of the thinkers themselves. They mostly
  • could say that the Riddle of the Ego appears in a great variety
  • of some view or other might appear as an arbitrary or forced opinion.
  • participants. Both sides feel the necessity to search for the
  • soul as the red color appears when a man looks at a rose, and the
  • had appeared as perception. We can only understand how the
  • philosophical evolution turns into a search for the new reality
  • factor. One path among those discernible to the student of this search
  • have chosen for themselves. We receive the clearest idea of this path
  • communication with the events of nature, now be accepted as it appears
  • soul experiences, stands clearly before the eye of his spirit. He
• Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Modern Age of Thought Evolution (Pt1 Ch5)
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  • cause the same search as the mysticism of Jakob Boehme. This becomes
  • variety of ways how the ego searches for means to experience its own
  • how to make this clear to the inhabitants. He advises them to abandon
  • narrow. He submits new plans; they are not clear, not inviting.
  • the observation of swinging church lamps, he showed even in his early
  • could appear fruitful for the investigation in the field of external
  • searches not only for an access to the investigation of individual
  • facts, but also to a world conception. What good is a groping search
  • truth through themselves. In antiquity, thought appeared like a
  • perception to the soul. This mode of appearance has been dampened
  • search for the possibility of justifying the validity of its own
  • doubt-exerting thinking I come to the clear awareness that I am.
  • it if one investigates the art of Dante and Shakespeare with respect
  • The advent of the mode of thought of modern natural science appears as
  • it proves to be clearly and distinctly resting solely on its own
  • have thought bear witness to the events of nature. The picture of
  • appearance of fog, for example, that is not really fog but a swarm of
  • gnats. What is seen by the senses of man is like the appearance of a
  • he arrives at conceptions that appear to be inappropriate to support a
  • those that disappear in the darkness of the senses.
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Age of Kant and Goethe (Pt1 Ch6)
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  • foundation, however, will not have to fear this destiny, for since the
  • Spinoza's realm of thoughts, appears in Kant's mind. Spinoza wants to
  • seemed strange to me that in logic I was to tear apart, isolate and
  • make room for a belief that satisfied the needs of the heart.
  • took and how he made his decision is apparent from the clear account
  • from the world what appears to it as knowledge. For Kant, the thought
  • which had appeared in 1755. He was satisfied to have shown that
  • they exist. Everything we observe belongs to the appearances within
  • appearances or phenomena, not to things in themselves, as Kant
  • appearances within ourselves; whether or not these have their origin
  • in the form in which that idea was accepted in the earlier age, and as
  • way that it appears as the immediate expression of the spirit. That is
  • remaining element a pleasure that is clearly and exclusively linked to
  • Two things fill the heart with ever new and always increasing
  • the same time in such a fashion that it becomes the bearer of a
  • purpose, this element of free purpose, which appears as it were by
  • appearances of his inner world, but it would have to be capable of
  • completely into nature and in which he presented nature as bearing
  • himself would only then have become quite clear to him if he had
  • conversations he had with the followers of Kant. “They heard what
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Classics of World and Life Conception (Pt1 Ch7)
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  • his search for truth he had penetrated as far as to the center of
  • unable to supply it with such a content, which can be learned clearly
  • the earth in spite of the fact that there is nothing between the sun
  • and earth to act as intermediary. One is to think that the sun extends
  • acts.” If we see that the sun affects the earth through
  • extends its being as far as our earth and that we have no right to
  • the same way that the sun's existence appears to the eye as being
  • phenomena themselves become more spiritual and finally disappear. The
  • by the feeling that the ideas that appear in his imagination are also
  • the basis of nature, and what appears dead and lifeless to our eyes
  • phenomena. He appears to himself as a part, a member of the creative
  • and have produced them, appear in our spirit. Man disregards
  • work of art, the idea appears intimately permeated with elements that
  • artistic creation, appear to Schelling not merely as the separate
  • spirit as the life of things. Even when appearing in the body, the
  • beholdest the depth and the stars and the earth, thou seest thy God,
  • has its own being. Thus, it is indeed divine, but the divine appears
  • in an entity that is independent of God; it appears in a non-divine
  • Schelling started out by searching for the ideas in all things, that
  • is to say, by searching for what is divine in them. In this way, the
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• Title: Book: RoP: Reactionary World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch8)
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  • thinker is disturbed by a contradiction. He demands clear concepts
  • only appearance. In this view he follows Kant to a certain degree, but
  • Herbart believes one penetrates from appearance to being by
  • transforming the contradictory concepts of appearance and changing
  • indicates fire, so appearance points at a form of being as its ground.
  • appear in this form that is free from contradictions, but it
  • appearance of relations into which the simple soul-entity enters with
  • mankind's evolution. Compared to Hegel, Herbart appears like a thinker
  • heard under its spell, they carried great conviction. After Hegel's
  • his university years, and his world conception sprang from this mood.
  • Spirit. In Goettingen, Schopenhauer heard the teachings of
  • world of appearances for him also? To be sure, the sage from
  • “I have a knowledge of the things insofar as I see, hear, feel
  • by being represented to my mind as a thought image. Heaven, earth,
  • Schopenhauer had to search for another path in order to come to the
  • “thing in itself.” In his search he was influenced by the
  • whose lectures he had heard in 1811 in Berlin. We also find this
  • element in Schelling. Schopenhauer could hear the most mature form of
  • concept, we are indebted to Goethe, who was attracted early by the
  • before his university years, when he was apprenticed to a merchant in
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Radical World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch2)
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  • earlier (1759) in the realm of natural science through the activity of
  • was understood before Wolff can be most distinctly learned from the
  • that appear in the course of life, but on a small scale and perfectly
  • Generationis, which appeared in 1759. He proceeded from the
  • supposition that the members of an organism that appear in the course
  • evolution, according to which the newly appearing parts of an organism
  • come into being when they appear. He writes in 1817 that this
  • world conception. The pure thought that appears in the human mind was
  • existence of the spirit before its real appearance in man, just
  • it comes into being only in the moment it appears. According to
  • being exists prior to its appearance in the world that would shape
  • matter and the perceptible world, and in this way cause the appearance
  • appears in the human organism as a new formation, but we are not
  • appearance in any form invisibly encased in the world. One should not
  • absolutely decided, incapable of doubt, clear as sunlight. But only
  • which it makes its actual appearance. He has an aversion to any
  • activity. Why must we often carry some thoughts with us for years
  • before they become clear and distinct to us? For the reason that
  • magnet in the earth. It is merely a picture. It is an innate trick in
  • especially clear if one compares the views of both thinkers with
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Struggle Over the Spirit (Pt2 Ch1)
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  • age-old enigmatic questions appear to be placed in a light that can be
  • insufficient, all endeavor would be wasted. This thought has appeared
  • as the wise intention of the scholastic thinker who wanted to learn
  • from the world in order to search for thought. It feels itself
  • itself appears merely as a manifestation of the spirit. The
  • for the answers of which the soul must feel a yearning, expecting from
  • earth life. In this process a world is implied with which the human
  • world the soul feels directed in searching for its own true being.
  • reflected in world history. Weary of the immediate passions in the
  • searches for the spirit, he will find it essentially as active
  • have to appear if it were possibly true that thought can be used for
  • nevertheless appear in a different light. The way in which Hegel
  • the most penetrating critic of his own work. If one searches for the
  • As arbitrary as all this may appear at first, it is nevertheless the
  • Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, to Hegel, appears as a struggle for such
  • mode of thinking, as he presents the world as thought, appears to be
  • partly in later books what they said in earlier ones . . .
  • been followed by an ebb tide. One often hears that gifted men accuse
  • the earlier one in spiritual momentum and mobility? It was in reality
  • Not only now but also twenty years ago, we have been living with the
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• Title: Book: RoP: Darwinism and World Conception (Pt2 Ch2)
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  • clearly formed in Darwin's mind when, in the years 1831 – 36, he was
  • were descendants of those of the nearest continent, namely, America,
  • to his heart.
  • view all beings not as special creations, but as the linear
  • Those who for decades before the appearance of Darwin's work had
  • thousands of years as forever variable and above all if we were so to
  • owe our eye to the process of seeing, our ear to that of hearing. The
  • In the future I see open fields for far more important researches.
  • Natural science clearly taught that man could not be an exception. On
  • climax are prepared in the earlier stages.
  • recognize the potential later phases in the earlier stages.
  • Accordingly, the later phase was in no way contained in the earlier
  • one. Instead, what was gradually developed was the tendency to search
  • in the later phases for traces of the earlier ones. This principle
  • Years ago, through my physiological investigations, I arrived at the
  • in the field of science. Oken appears like a comet on the firmament of
  • also those of the turtles, in their earlier stages are extraordinarily
  • settled in Brazil. For twelve years he was a teacher at the gymnasium
  • accepts the similarity in the early stages as an inherited element of
  • Müller. He thereby brought the earlier forms of an animal class into a
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• Title: Book: RoP: The World as Illusion (Pt2 Ch3)
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  • thinking? We hear, see and touch the physical world through our
  • knife that cuts us but a state of our nerves that appears to us as
  • something appears to us as light. What we then really have is a state
  • physicist's view of the phenomena of sensation. A sound that we hear
  • and we hear a tone. The string transmits the vibrations to the air.
  • They spread and reach our ear; a tone sensation is transmitted to us.
  • particles outside move while we hear these tones. He finds that the
  • world picture appears as light and color is motion outside in space.
  • tones and tastes. What it really contains we learn only indirectly or
  • external world there are only motions; in our soul, sensations appear.
  • At first sight it appears is if, through the knowledge of material
  • us that this view is an error. We would only learn something
  • should learn nothing that would explain how the mental life comes into
  • sweet, smell the scent of roses, hear the sound of an organ, see red,
  • ontogeny and paleontology appear to Du Bois-Reymond to be of
  • external world when we hear a tone and see a color to laws that govern
  • depth of world space after years in the firmament of heaven, so would
  • the question of why this motion appears to me as a red color. When one
  • themselves, we must be clearly aware of the fact that we cannot go
  • further. “A fish can swim in water in the pond, not in the earth,
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• Title: Book: RoP: Echoes of the Kantian Mode of Conception (Pt2 Ch4)
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  • Voices like this found scarcely a hearing. This became most poignantly
  • clear in the slogan, “Back to Kant,” which became popular in
  • and searching, of cautious trial, defensive reserve and deliberate
  • This new attempt to start from Kant appears in a special light in Otto
  • of thought, reveals as half truths what appear as safe judgments, and
  • when their results appear before the highest tribunals of thought.
  • been hermetically sealed and buried for thousands of years, when sowed
  • consciousness. Therefore, everything that they see, hear, etc., is not
  • The first fundamental condition that the philosopher must clearly
  • Sources of Human Certainty that appeared in 1906, we read
  • everything logical, that bears witness with immediate evidence of the
  • appears in space and time, when seen from the only viewpoint that is
  • appearance in a manner that the concept of knowledge could emerge
  • begins with Kant and leads, finally, as it appears in Wahle, to a
• Title: Book: RoP: World Conceptions of Scientific Factuality (Pt2 Ch5)
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  • mind. If it cannot be treated clearly and simply like a mathematical
  • fact. The whole world appears to him like the mechanics of a machine.
  • machinelike. The concrete historical life of man appears in his
  • bias as they appear when we approach them without philosophical or
  • we find in Biran in the form of clear and concrete thinking. Two
  • of knowledge in man's inner life. The forces of which we learn through
  • introspection are intimately known in our life, and we learn of an
  • untiring in his search for the processes in man's soul. He pays
  • consciousness emerges in the soul. Biran's search for wisdom within
  • the soul led him to a peculiar form of mysticism in later years. In
  • a great man appears in the world merely as a messenger of a great idea,
  • precedent, when they heard such a splendid speaker expound the role
  • will become clear only when the attempt is made to find in them laws
  • only learn to guide his own fate completely when he conceived of his
  • Within German spirit-life Eugen Dühring (1833 – 1921) appeared
  • mere rearrangement of the purely factual, dominates Dühring so
  • motivates them to search for a reason to explain why one being
  • for “the earth with all it produces, as well as all causes of
  • Dialectic appeared. Kirchmann proceeds from the supposition that
  • appears in thinking, in the element that the soul adds in spontaneous
• Title: Book: RoP: Modern Idealistic World Conceptions (Pt2 Ch6)
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  • In his work, Life and Life-force, which appeared in 1842 in
  • disgust, love and hatred, into joyful certainty and doubtful yearning,
  • into all the nameless forms of suspense and fear in which life goes
  • appears in Fechner as the result of a richly developed imagination
  • scientific thinker, merely search for the conditions of man's becoming
  • Man lives on earth not once, but three times. His first stage of life
  • appeared in print. He proceeds by following the strictly natural,
  • Our heart's ardent desire to grasp the highest that it may divine can
  • aspiration of our heart is so much guided by the conviction that the
  • appears lifeless, that we always find the early phases of religion,
  • a dull transitory appearance of an ever active inner weaving.
  • If natural processes, as they appear in the observation, are only such
  • certainly do not know the merits that would be adequate to earn the
  • first case, it appears convex, in the second, concave. In both cases,
  • entities at all; they are both one and the same thing. They appear to
  • within, would appear as spiritual? We can see the plant only from
  • ability to observe from within the physical processes of our earth
  • appear to him as the soul of the earth. So it would also be with the
  • others, the earth spirit, the planetary spirit, the world spirit.
  • enabled him to adapt freely the inherited research methods to fit his
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• Title: Book: RoP: Modern Man and His World Conception (Pt2 Ch7)
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  • Darwinism. Eleven years after the appearance of Darwin's Origin of
  • commandment that is valid for him? We can only ask: What appears as
  • development is already pre-formed in an earlier one, but considers it
  • is already implicitly contained in the earlier one. For him, it is
  • quite clear that what is at first implicit will become explicit at a
  • is comfort, if not wealth, power and influence. The search and
  • appearance in order to make this painful existence bearable. In
  • idea of the redemption of the world through beauty as mere appearance,
  • Schopenhauer! These thinkers search contemplatively for the ground of
  • cooled; they appear to him as bubbles of thought. His soul now wants
  • man in itself; must not man bear within himself a higher being, the
  • and influence. The search and striving for a continuous improvement of
  • historical phenomena as they appear to external observation, in order
  • satisfied by the modern habits of thought and research. Concealed from
  • at an ideal of research with which the scientist feels secure in his
  • search for knowledge must confine itself to the limits of the mode of
  • clearly expressed in a thought current called pragmatism that appeared
  • spirit of modern times demands this becomes especially clear through
  • anatomist, Carl Gegenbaur, pointed out as early as 1870 that it is
  • cannot be so, but that there must have been a being in earlier times
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• Title: Book: RoP: A Brief Outline of an Approach to Anthroposophy (Pt2 Ch8)
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  • conceptions take form, one can see undercurrents in the search and
  • often appears as if driven by hidden forces, which they are unwilling
  • within the self-conscious ego. But the search stimulated by this
  • therefore, has no fragrance if nobody smells it. . . . If this, dear
  • How the sensory world appears when man is confronted with it,
  • then that this appearance of the world is a product of man's soul?
  • something that belongs to them. For this reason, things appear to
  • soul. Their delusive character (or their mere appearance) is caused by
  • mental organization tears the reality apart into these two factors.
  • this external world in such a way that it appears to him as
  • soul that appear on the level of ordinary consciousness. It is the
  • thinking, such an experience appears at first like sheer nonsense. The
  • outside the body. When I see a color, when I hear a sound, I
  • discipline the mind to a point where it will clearly differentiate
  • view, can alone solve the riddles of philosophy, is the fear that they
  • might be led thereby into a realm of unclear mysticism. Unless one has
  • from the beginning an inclination toward unclear mysticism, one will,
  • experience that is as crystal clear as the structures of mathematical
  • the penetration into this reality, appears as the true entity
  • being in his individual existence appears as a unit toward which all
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• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Preface to the 1914 Edition
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  • which appeared in 1901. The invitation to present this book as a
  • originally given could I make completely clear what I had intended to
  • last one hundred and thirty years of philosophical development. Such a
  • history of philosophy. This sensation appeared with greater intensity
  • because the parts of the earlier version have not been shortened,
  • “changed” my views in the course of years will probably not
  • be necessary to me, not because I felt the need after fifteen years of
  • in which here and there a thought appears in the new book, whereas in
  • is expressed differently in later years certainly cannot constitute a
  • expression should be a mere copy of the earlier one, but is ready to
• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Preface to the 1918 Edition
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  • in the course of its development does not produce clear-cut and
  • an earlier time have been disposed of as imperfect by the
  • At first acquaintance they will have the appearance of something that
• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Preface to the 1923 Edition
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  • appear historically and that move the contemporary observer of these
  • that he sees how this endeavor took shape in earlier thinkers on whom
  • appear in a form that bears semblance to the world of the senses.
  • from which they appear in mutual support.
  • by a will to search for truth, I will nevertheless answer them
  • my later works, which seem to contradict my earlier ones, are based on