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Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Introduction
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philosophical thinking appears in human history. Philosophical
thinking as a manifestation of the evolution of human consciousness.
remember he sees the human consciousness in an evolution. It has not
the evolution of human consciousness plays an important role. It could
universal concepts, is now seen as a soul struggle of a profound human
the possibility of human freedom within a world apparently determined
experience of the thinker, human freedom is born. Man becomes free in

Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Introductory Remarks to the 1914 Edition
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beginning of Greek philosophy this evolution tended to lead the human
experiences of the human soul as well as the results of the research
element in the inner experience of the human soul that manifests
world view, the human soul can most safely obtain the ability to

Title: Book: RoP: Guiding Thoughts on the Method of Presentation (Pt1 Ch1)
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understanding for a world conception rests on the fact that the human
of the human soul at a certain stage of its development causes a
can lay hold on the human soul so powerfully that it can be forced to
think, “Only then am I fully human in the true sense of
moment he feels as a dream of life from which he awoke. The human soul
of the dim soul life of the child. In a similar way the human soul
special form of satisfying the need of the human soul expressed in the
find the nature of the human being himself revealed. For although man
in a philosophy what the human personality can make out of
nature of human soul development, and the writer of this book believes
of external history, sending its rays into the human personalities and
human soul lived in imaginative (symbolic) thought pictures that
the present age. As long as the human soul conceives world phenomena
this organism. As the pure pictureless thought awakens in the human
A new period begins with the dawn of the Christian era. The human soul
type of thought formation, the human soul, finding itself in an
It leads the human soul to the point where it feels its
centuries the human soul had been inwardly consolidated through the
of the philosophy of that age. The human soul attempts to examine its
imagined when the self-conscious human soul, conceived by the
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Title: Book: RoP: The World Conception of the Greek Thinkers (Pt1 Ch2)
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evolution of mankind a transformation of the human organization has
taken place. There was a time when the subtle organs of human nature,
it has now a different relation to the human soul from the one it had
philosophy. The other branches of human life are correspondingly
field of human knowledge.
The progress in human evolution that is characterized by this process
the ruling powers, but the human soul must assume an underlying unity.
to the human soul an origin different from that of the gods of the
time as another human being. It may be recalled that that great
of the Human Race, renewed this idea of man's repeated lives on
of Pythagoras. Lessing could conceive of the progress of the human
race only in such a way that the human souls participated repeatedly
“because it occurred to the human mind before academic sophistry
traditions of oldest human insight. When we observe the oldest human
teachings of humanity. The mythical teachings in picture form appeared
world conception originates in the human soul is revealed. Working
world conception. To be sure, they feel the independence of the human
own human soul and communicates to it of its own life as long as the
human soul knows itself as living in it. Out of such a feeling of
was felt to be a necessity for the human soul intending to approach
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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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developing human souls and the resulting world pictures are derived
Erigena, the human soul feels its roots in a world ground on which it
world is revealed in many human beings. During human life on earth, to
a manifestation of the fact that the developing human soul did not
this energy into an extra-human world power.

Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Middle Ages (Pt1 Ch4)
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what is humanly comprehensible in Aristotelian method. In this way,
Therefore, human thinking for Thomas Aquinas is in need of another
the human mind. It is rooted in a spiritual world, and the individual
human soul, extinguishing the formerly prevalent picture
consciousness of the “ego” penetrated the human soul, and
gradually exhausted. Under the surface, however, the human soul
convinced that the human soul contains more than the world of

Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Modern Age of Thought Evolution (Pt1 Ch5)
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caused human conception to be dominated by so many idols
again by Galileo. He led natural philosophy back into the human being.
human soul. The animals, which in Descartes's sense cannot apprehend
beings of extension, automata, machines. The human body, too, is
Outwardly, the progress in the life of the human soul is expressed in
progress in human evolution becomes evident that is caused by the fact
of the thought experience in the human soul in such a way that the new
soul. A transformation takes place in the organization of the human
transformation in the organization of the human soul can be observed
in all fields of the development of humanity. It becomes apparent in
to their foundations in the human soul development. Here these
another symptom of this transformation of the human soul organization.
the human soul at the beginning of the modern age in the sixteenth
those of the human soul. Such an assertion would also have been
Thus, the human soul dissociates itself from nature; it takes its
nature of modern times forces the human consciousness to feel itself
as the mathematician takes his start from general truths, which the human
follow Spinoza, endows the whole human personality with the impulse to
that are conceived by human consciousness in the same way as the
furthermore, the human monads in wake-consciousness, etc., up to the
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Title: Book: RoP: The Age of Kant and Goethe (Pt1 Ch6)
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of it. It is incomprehensible what a high degree of respect for humanity,
which shows no mercy to any human or divine work, will also destroy
human race exists, and as long as there has been a reason, this
of human thought.
supplies the firm foundation on which, according to Spinoza, the human
mathematical law, admits the human ego only if it surrenders itself
Leibniz's thoughts tended in the opposite direction. The human soul
the human soul, the self-dependent existence in the universe, its
absolutely necessary if the human race is to derive any help from
human soul, that the human mind imagined such connections only through
by Hume's opinion according to which the human mind does not receive
emerged as a possibility: What is knowledge for the human mind does
. . . (Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sec. VII, part 1.)
then it would be a mere deception of the human reason to imagine that
this. That the world does not give its knowledge to the human
Kant found an answer that saved the truth and certainty of human
knowledge by sacrificing human insight into the grounds of the world.
produces its own world according to its own laws. As long as the human
observation in the human mind. In doing so, however, he has raised
that of the human soul as well. In thought life, nature and the soul
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Title: Book: RoP: The Classics of World and Life Conception (Pt1 Ch7)
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what created them is what emerges in an individual human spirit as
picture of an experience is to the experience itself. Thereby, human
Human Freedom and Topics Pertinent to This Question, he had
the rise of Christianity, this state of innocence of humanity
human shape, and as mediator in order to restore again the connection
analogy with the human life. As man attempts to overcome the imperfect
traits. He depicts him as a human being when he says, “If we
thinking; with an acting human being this is not possible. With him,
ideas as divine, but the whole human spirit-personality. He not only
elevated the human reason into a godly reason, but he made the human
reason is nothing but the human reason made into this general reason.
thinking and doing, always conceived as similar to a human
character of this creation must also correspond to that of human
The individual human personality lives and has its being in and
world in an unconscious form. It is then received by the human spirit.
It becomes apparent to itself in the human spirit. Just as man, in
thought, so also man's own essence is thought. In the human
in the human self-consciousness. Thought then works its way
Hegel thus seized the human spirit in its highest activity, that is,
its appropriate form only in the human self-consciousness. What really
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Title: Book: RoP: Reactionary World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch8)
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for esthetics. He believes he finds them in human feeling. When man
Herbart bases his ethics on a human feeling, on moral sentiment. He
investigated those processes of human soul life that really do go on
with a certain regularity in the same way with all human beings. These
career as a merchant, the sight of scenes of human miseries that he
Concerning the Nature of Human Freedom and Matters Connected with
claims that this element is not merely in the human soul but in the
light and colors as they would go on if there were no human eye. But
human organism, through its senses, through the soul of man, there is
through experiments that can be detached from the human being must
If one sees in the pictures of human imagination only products that
reason because reason comes into existence only in the human brain,
root of the world in self-conscious reason, and in human reason, only
source of human actions. What better course could be taken by a man
music so deeply moves the human soul. It does this because music is
aim that he reaches is the individual human spirit endowed with a
self-conscious being does not exist outside the human spirit. Hegel
nature and humanity.” He does not want to have anything in common
nature and the spirit. For this reason, it is possible that the human
created out of the thought of magnetism before the human mind
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Title: Book: RoP: The Radical World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch2)
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rigorously for this view. In the first mother, Eve, the whole human
race was contained, concealed on a small scale. The human germs have
So I should think that the souls, which some day will be human souls,
world conception. The pure thought that appears in the human mind was
of the human spirit consists of mere matter and blind forces that form
new formation, something that has never been before: the human
consciousness of humanity,” and that man is “incapable of
human being.” There is an observation of nature and an
appears in the human organism as a new formation, but we are not
“To make philosophy the concern of humanity was my first
the product of evolution, as a new formation in the human organism in
metaphysics says, “I leave human nature unconsidered.” Is it
doing so as a human being? Do you think without a head? Thoughts are
faithful picture of a human being who was once in the flesh? Do not
leave human nature out of consideration,” then mean? Nothing more
human beings, into entirely human beings.
what was not natural with regard to the shape that the actual human
carried into it by human illusions, was what Feuerbach considered to
modern natural science. This development tore nature and the human
and on the other, an idea of the human soul from which no bridge led
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Title: Book: RoP: The Struggle Over the Spirit (Pt2 Ch1)
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the human soul the consciousness of being at its true original source.
satisfactory cognitive relation to the world for the human soul.
Seen from such a viewpoint, the other main problems of human knowledge
and the human soul becomes thought in the thought world.
human soul may feel itself as becoming and having its being in the
it. Looking at this world conception, the human soul must ask,
entity of the human soul finds an adequate place. To Hegel, the whole
begin with, the question, “What is the human soul
Education of the Human Race. He asked the question of the
significance for the individual human soul beyond the life that
earth life. In this process a world is implied with which the human
With this demand of Hegel the human soul has been brought to a
human food, for instance. But one can also expose the seed of the
this life as the purpose of human nutrition is to the seed of the
perception and develops everything in the human soul in a process that
seed of a plant may be used as human food. But should it not be
when it is used as human food? In what light would Hegel's philosophy
something in the human being that binds man to a world beyond the
Doctrine of the Immortality of the Human Individual. In this book
general human outlook on the world. It should be understandable that
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Title: Book: RoP: Darwinism and World Conception (Pt2 Ch2)
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perpetual competition going on in human society because the population
the greatest benefactors of the human race.
consider our own human type. We should then be unable any longer to
human actions. For human actions are the only series of phenomena that
judgment, in most cases indeed far surpass what human intelligence is
ideas that were to satisfy the human need for explanation. He held the
expressed in the blossom of a plant and in the human spirit that
of human knowledge, can see in the explanation of nature only an act
monkey and three thought they came from a human being; six, however,
of a human being with the statement that a certain growth in the bone
healed through careful human attention. The paleontologist, Marsch,
that the same formation was found in a human skull from Santos,
human knowledge, that is, the problem concerning man's origin, his
evolution in the human spirit; Haeckel continuously endeavors to prove
that the most complicated human activities point back to the simplest
his condemnation of the humanization of nature, of anthropomorphism,
and will of our human souls differ from those of the cellular soul
mammals and that explain the superiority of human consciousness.”

Title: Book: RoP: The World as Illusion (Pt2 Ch3)
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the human mind and that he has accomplished this through the very fact
the organization of the whole human species. Schiller, Hegel and every
human race, and no one in this respect can be different from anybody
the individual is also granted a value by Lange for the whole human
human species, and culminating with the creative power in
the truth of the real and sees the human world of ideas best supported
curtails the wings of human imagination. What Lange is doing in such
our thinking we do not enter the independent entity. Human knowledge
truths but has its cause in the limitation of the human mind, which
concerning the significance, origin and value of human knowledge by
and how much to man himself. Whewell finds that the human mind always
without but through the active participation of the human mind that
tried to gain an insight into the genesis of knowledge in the human
determining what is certain and uncertain in human knowledge. The
This is the question John Stuart Mill asks. If a single human being
essence of the world; it is not something that the human mind has
elements in all phenomena. He is of the opinion that the human conduct
of knowledge depends on us as human beings. We therefore must assume
under which it lives. It belongs to the human conditions of life that
human being also contributed to his spiritual existence through his
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Title: Book: RoP: Echoes of the Kantian Mode of Conception (Pt2 Ch4)
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of work was done inquiring into the nature and extent of the human
Sources of Human Certainty that appeared in 1906, we read
Theories, that in his opinion the whole thought structure of human
one deny that human thinking has the ability to know something through
merely human conception in spite of the fact that it must

Title: Book: RoP: World Conceptions of Scientific Factuality (Pt2 Ch5)
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completely rejected by Comte. He argues: If the human spirit wanted to
Lamarck and Darwin. So far as Comte is concerned, the human species is
knowledge of human society. Comte strives to make all these sciences
Biran is a subtle observer of the human spirit. What in Rousseau seems
of the human being is brought into the foreground of the
human spirit that a satisfactory viewpoint for a world conception can
human individuals, but that a real idea is manifested in them and that
stage, humanity had to go through two phases of immaturity — one in
operate. The science of human social life, of human development,
becomes completely arbitrary when he undertakes to evaluate human
matter whether they infest entire epochs and parts of humanity under
Reality has produced for itself an organ in human thinking in which it
human thinking. “The ideal system of our thought is the picture
from human action, to nature. Dühring, as he proceeds from such
it if it occurred merely in the human mind. Proceeding from these
derived from human activities. He thinks, for instance, that not only
inanimate processes. What in human life is right cannot be wrong in

Title: Book: RoP: Modern Idealistic World Conceptions (Pt2 Ch6)
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Lotze, like many others, has the feeling that the human picture of
conceptions that are taken from the human soul (compare above
germ that lies in the spirit of every human being develops. It can be
the world of matter as the human spirit does to the human body. He
characterizes this new science in his Lectures on the Human and
processes of the human brain. Without a brain there is no
element in reality corresponds to the conscious ideas of the human
The idea of a table cannot produce an impression on the human eye. A
manifest in the human soul the will presupposes the existence of the
human organism. Through the organism it is a conscious will. If we
into consciousness. To the conscious contribution of human work
presents the different kinds of human doctrines of morality in logical
to be combined into one total picture. Subsequently, human thought
have in everything the soul perceives only the effects of extra-human
is caused by natural necessity through the human organization.
half of the nineteenth century. For such a world conception the human
humanity, one can even say in everything that has life, and is in
portrayed in a radical way in a series of pictures what a humanity is
human soul is one of the will-monads. The thinker of such a world
nothing that would answer the questions concerning the human soul's
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Title: Book: RoP: Modern Man and His World Conception (Pt2 Ch7)
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contain the human soul within its scope. He aims at the reunion of the
happiness, the human self-consciousness is necessary as a fundamental
conceptions can cause if they affect the very substance of the human
confronted with a ,world conception within the life of a human being,
and he sees that one idea makes this human being healthy while another
of the human soul. In Nietzsche this will is alive. He absorbs the
can be to the human soul. This period is expressed in his works,
Human, All Too Human (1878), The Dawn of Day (1881), and
of the human soul thrusts itself on Nietzsche to join his idea of
he knows as weaving and breathing in human nature.
moment through and in which a human achievement comes into being, we
thoughts is the question raised as to what arises in the human individual,
impotence of modern philosophy with regard to the human soul
approaches a maximum. The “ego,” the self-conscious human
consciousness, spiritual life works in human souls. It drives these
source the human soul feels its kinship with a world entity that is
investigation of the nature of the human soul. It has been shown above
satisfactory conceptions of the human soul could be derived. The
philosophical question itself is lost. The task with which the human
last questions concerning the human soul. But he is convinced that our
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Title: Book: RoP: A Brief Outline of an Approach to Anthroposophy (Pt2 Ch8)
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inner nature. The human soul can arrive at its insights only through a
human soul does not deviate from reality in its creative effort for
for me into a conscious perception. The human body is not the producer
The true nature of the human soul can be experienced directly
the self-conscious ego, which, although actively produced by the human
cultural experiences of humanity. If this world is seen as the only
of natural science, the world is so ordered that the physical human
is created by this human being. That world, however, is not an
human being.
emerges like a higher human nature for whom the physical man is like a
experience, from the physical body, is a spiritual human entity that
something that will develop into a new physical man. This new human
pattern of the new experiences. Thus there remains hidden in the human
the process in which a human life, apart from its external
can observe how the human soul is transformed by experiences that
higher human being strives to become strong enough to find expression
fruits of one life, will form a new human life in the same way that
mind to the obvious possibility that the faculties of the human soul
survives the decay of the plant. The insight is gained that the human
world. The human souls themselves carry into a later cultural epoch
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Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Preface to the 1918 Edition
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human life in such a way that it can really unfold itself in all
disinclination, a heavy penalty must be paid in the course of human
human existence. It is out of such a feeling that I have written about
necessity of life, but in spite of this, the endeavor of human thought
all-comprehensive way. Such is the nature of human thinking that a
Whoever wants to view the history of human thought development from a
I have attempted to comprehend the course of human thought development
existence of forces in human history that manifest themselves in
human thought in a meaningful and necessary way. I had to accept such

Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Preface to the 1923 Edition
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human soul. He can grasp this when he allows the essential elements of
satisfied when he is able to comprise the entire human being,

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