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• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Introductory Remarks to the 1914 Edition
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  • question of man's nature, his relation to the world and other riddles
  • that the knowledge of external nature had erected for itself. A
  • conception of nature arose that is so exclusively concerned with the
• Title: Book: RoP: Guiding Thoughts on the Method of Presentation (Pt1 Ch1)
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  • soul can be stirred by the contemplation of these words. The nature of
  • a living organism involves the necessity of feeling hunger. The nature
  • about the nature of philosophy in the true sense of the word. One
  • find the nature of the human being himself revealed. For although man
  • nature of human soul development, and the writer of this book believes
  • as the difference of the species of a realm of nature. This
  • on the observation of facts of nature. The author of this book
  • mankind in a form adequate to the true nature of this
  • thought as something that is deeply related to the soul's own nature
  • believes one experiences the true nature of the soul itself. The
  • nature, which is not limited to the life manifested through the body
  • In the fourth epoch the emerging natural sciences add a view of nature
  • independent ground. As this nature-picture develops, it retains
  • nature emerges that has detached itself in turn from the inner soul
  • life. The tendency arises to think of nature in such a way that
  • derived from the soul and not exclusively from nature itself. Thus,
  • the soul is, in this period, expelled from nature, and with its inner
  • with its true being. For in the picture of nature it cannot find any
  • by a picture of nature that refuses to accept any element of this
  • nature picture, feels as its fundamental question, “How do I gain
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• Title: Book: RoP: The World Conception of the Greek Thinkers (Pt1 Ch2)
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  • of nature. They do not feel that they stand as a special entity beside
  • nature. They experience themselves in nature as they experience
  • Nature:
  • She (nature) has placed me in life; she will also lead me out of it. I
  • one's own being imbedded in nature as a whole and then expresses this
  • taken place. There was a time when the subtle organs of human nature,
  • from nature. Engaged in thought experience, man felt himself as an
  • entity that could not experience nature with the same intimacy as he
  • the contrast of nature and soul came into being.
  • life of another being, Chthon. Chronos rules in nature; Chronos rules
  • in man; in nature and man Chronos consumes Chthon. It is of no
  • superior to the older, spiritual world and to nature. It was to this
  • from external “nature.” What is clearly apparent in these
  • imperfect observation of nature. Thus the statement is made that the
  • process of nature. One will, for instance, most certainly construct an
  • experienced the external processes of nature as similar to inner soul
  • the process and nature of “water” (the fluid, mudlike,
  • himself and outside in nature the effect of water, although to a
  • still later age the external effects in nature were thought of as
  • nature that are experienced in the effects of water. One saw these
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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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  • itself as an evolution in four forms of nature. The first of
  • these is the creating and not created nature. In it is
  • which evolves the creating and created nature. This is a sum of
  • produce the created and not creating nature, to which the
  • received into the not created and not creating nature, in which
• Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Middle Ages (Pt1 Ch4)
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  • believe they are concerned with questions of a different nature. One
  • the one lion nature expressed in the “idea of lion.”
  • Thus, the inquiry into the nature of the “general ideas”
  • to nature, which becomes more and more pronounced in the modern world
  • nature. As they present themselves they cannot be accepted by the soul,
  • communication with the events of nature, now be accepted as it appears
  • that something is behind the phenomena of nature that will reveal itself
  • capable of receiving something from nature that one does not create
  • thought. A higher nature behind nature is what Paracelsus is
  • nature's processes with his “ego” in order to have revealed
  • to a contact with the roots of nature in the external world.
• Title: Book: RoP: The World Conceptions of the Modern Age of Thought Evolution (Pt1 Ch5)
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  • nature, one could be tempted to group him with Anaxagoras, for whom
  • phenomena of nature must be thought of as a world picture in such a
  • the processes of nature are for him evidence of the thought of
  • nature are, as it were, extinguished in the picture in which
  • nature, but as Goethe shows in the case of Galileo, even in this field
  • exclusively concerned with the individual processes of nature.
  • thought and the processes of nature was still immediately established;
  • Just compare the state of the form of thinking about nature as it
  • century. Nature is now looked at in such a way that the sense
  • nature is no longer drawn in a manner that allows thought to be felt
  • in it as a power revealed by nature. Out of this picture of nature,
  • observation of nature are more and more abruptly contrasted, separated
  • becomes discernible that tends to separate the picture of nature from
  • such a manner that the picture of nature could be considered a support
  • realized if one considers the way in which philosophers of nature,
  • of nature still continued to show its effect and was to lose its power
  • Cardanus of the processes of nature, which he conceives as similar to
  • exists no more in external nature than the sensation of tickling that
  • the picture of nature he allows as thinkable only what contains
  • picture of nature. In a personality like Leonardo da Vinci
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Age of Kant and Goethe (Pt1 Ch6)
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  • the necessary in nature, but you are seeking it along the most
  • careful to avoid. You take hold of nature as a whole in order to
  • obtain light in a particular point; in the totality of nature's
  • from the cradle been surrounded by an exquisite nature and an
  • much as the lecturer about the nature of things, the world and God,
  • nature. In this way, Jacobi deposed the knowledge of reason to
  • mechanism of nature. But since, as the case lies, for the
  • other relation) as a mechanism of nature. In this way, the doctrine of
  • concepts of God and of the simple nature of our soul, which I
  • of comprehending nature in its necessary connection. Now Kant had
  • it could, through itself, gain any insight into the nature of the
  • the nature of things that it cannot change in any moment. If we form
  • with demands of my own mental organization. The nature of my mind
  • is four. It is in accordance with this nature that the mind constructs
  • “Reason does not derive its laws from nature but
  • prescribes them to nature.” Kant sums up his conviction in
  • insight into a supersensible world, but from his moral nature springs
  • should be eliminated from our thought picture of nature. Kant had this
  • even outlined such a picture for a certain realm of nature that was in
  • Aristotelian thought could be considered as the revelation of nature
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Classics of World and Life Conception (Pt1 Ch7)
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  • Nature strikes us like a flash of lightning illuminating the past
  • philosophize about nature means to create nature.” What had been
  • is monumentally expressed in this sentence. What nature yields
  • statement about nature, the following question became urgent. How can
  • the real world, holding sway in real nature? With sharp words
  • project our ideas into nature,” because “they have no
  • inkling of what nature is and must be for us. . . . For we are not
  • satisfied to have nature accidentally (through the intermediary
  • our spirit. We insist that nature itself necessarily and fundamentally
  • it should only then be, and be called, nature if it did just this. . .
  • . Nature is to be the visible spirit: spirit the invisible nature.
  • spirit in us and of nature outside us, the problem must
  • be solved as to how a nature outside ourselves should be
  • Nature and spirit, then, are not two different entities at all but one
  • Schelling concerning this unity of nature and spirit has rarely been
  • in which he expresses himself on the nature of gravity. Many
  • spirit and nature in approximately this manner. The spirit is not
  • be observed. It embraces and permeates all nature that it knows. When
  • were, the law is then, in addition to being active in nature,
  • attention from nature and contemplates its own being that the
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• Title: Book: RoP: Reactionary World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch8)
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  • nature makes them at once into moments of the organic whole in which
  • chaotic if the entities, which, according to their own nature, would
  • Concerning the Nature of Human Freedom and Matters Connected with
  • One wants to know nature only according to the indications of
  • what nature is capable of.
  • into the nature of a thing by disregarding the effects we observe, but
  • this nature is given to us through the mind's exact observation of the
  • nature of a thing. What we are aware of are effects, and a complete
  • information from them concerning the nature of light. Color and light
  • belonging to nature as a whole; for it is nature as a whole that is
  • revealed what is concealed in the rest of nature. In man, nature
  • truth of nature outside man, will not find it, according to Goethe's
  • physical doctrine that sees the nature of light, not in the mental
  • the opinion that a valid statement about nature can be arrived at
  • are added to an already complete nature, then it is of course
  • necessary to determine what goes on in nature apart from these
  • contained in nature as Goethe did, then one will consult them in
  • Goethe's theory of colors. He says in his Philosophy of Nature:
  • especially in painting; his pure and simple sense of nature had to
  • copies nothing in nature. As all things and events are only mental
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Radical World Conceptions (Pt1 Ch2)
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  • Nature of Religion (1845), and Theogony (1857).
  • formations in organic nature through the study of the process of their
  • perceptible form of existence in man. Before nature and the individual
  • nature. Only the unity of being and consciousness is truth. Where
  • human being.” There is an observation of nature and an
  • observation of the spirit, but there is no observation of the nature
  • nature as the basis of man, the only universal and ultimate object of
  • metaphysics says, “I leave human nature unconsidered.” Is it
  • possible to leave your own nature out of consideration? Are you not
  • leave human nature out of consideration,” then mean? Nothing more
  • consciousness; that is to say, not my own nature to which my process
  • psychologist, you may disregard your body, but in your nature you are
  • discovering order and wisdom in the world; it follows from the nature
  • of 1848 on The Nature of Religion closed with these words:
  • of nature and man, must also reject all direction and duties in the
  • revelations than he possesses according to his own nature.
  • country to study and rest there in the arms of nature. My next task is
  • modern natural science. This development tore nature and the human
  • soul completely apart. On the one side, a nature picture had to arise
  • into nature. In nature one found law-ordered necessity. Within its
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• Title: Book: RoP: The Struggle Over the Spirit (Pt2 Ch1)
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  • nature at the same time, for both nature and the soul are
  • manifestations of thought. Through the phenomena of nature the thought
  • this is the essence of light. As it then turns its eye to nature, it
  • Nature swims, as it were, as a frozen part in the cosmos of thought,
  • The fourth major problem of philosophy, the question of the nature and
  • finds itself bound to nature. In this connection it does not know
  • itself in its true entity. It divorces itself from this nature
  • nature and its own true being as that of the living spirit as it lives
  • recognize itself according to its deepest nature in this experience,
  • conception in this light. The nature of the thought element could
  • thought but also forces the soul to consider its nature to be
  • fact, the whole book, Insight into Man's Nature, which appeared
  • that chapter. “The whole inner nature of man has been constructed
  • Troxler steers. He does not want to dissolve the nature of man into a
  • nature of man anchored in a world that is not merely thought. For this
  • again in the rising demand to penetrate deeper into nature than is
  • all spirit in nature by knowing this spirit of nature
  • experience deeper forces and entities in nature? Whether such
  • nature, which, even more powerfully than before, weighed on the
  • Philosophy of Nature, wrote in his preface to this work in 1841:
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• Title: Book: RoP: Darwinism and World Conception (Pt2 Ch2)
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  • If the thought of the teleological structure of nature was to be
  • organisms become purpose-adjusted without anything in nature planning
  • took the point of view that there is nothing in nature that plans the
  • design. Nature is never in a position to consider whether its products
  • case. What will happen if, while a complete absence of plan in nature
  • nature is not a parsimonious housekeeper in regard to the production
  • the forms adequate to the purpose of life are preserved even if nature
  • any wise purpose as any mathematical or mechanical law of nature can
  • be, the course of nature's evolution receives a tendency toward a
  • can be drawn from this fact. The first is that nature has the tendency
  • Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death the most exalted
  • that persuaded him to a rational view of nature, for he tells us
  • be found that requires no other method for organic nature than that
  • which is used in inorganic nature. As long as it was impossible to
  • to be consistent, that everywhere in nature where a purpose-adjusted
  • how to avoid it for we did not know of any energy of nature with which
  • assumed. Darwin has demonstrated this energy of nature, this procedure
  • of nature; he has opened the door through which a fortunate posterity
  • clarifying imitations of forms of nature as it is known to us.
  • hypothesis of Oken and Lamarck, it would have to be shown how nature
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• Title: Book: RoP: The World as Illusion (Pt2 Ch3)
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  • evolution, wants to bring the conception of the phenomena of nature
  • merely the sign of the effect of the object. The nature of the sign
  • The light outside ourselves in nature is motion of the ether. A motion
  • eyes and feel it with our fingers. The nature of certain stimuli,
  • nature of the world picture of our perceptions has gained increasing
  • through external impressions are not dependent on the nature of these
  • impressions but on the nature of our nerve cells. We have no sensation
  • correct reaction for the special nature of his eye. He must only know
  • as the majority of men have eyes that are of a similar nature. One can
  • reference to the special nature of our eye, is only concerned with the
  • motions that is independent of the special nature of our faculty of
  • fact that our nervous system and our brain are of a material nature.
  • approximately of the same nature as our sense impressions, but we
  • nature as well as the mutual position of the entities of which nature
  • “It is to describe the motions occurring in nature in the most
  • nature.
  • nature.” Referring to Kirchhoff, Du Bois-Reymond praises the wise
  • nature. We must not attribute some functions of our being to a
  • physical nature and others to a spiritual one, but we are justified to
  • philosophers had thought concerning the nature of facts, for him it
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• Title: Book: RoP: Echoes of the Kantian Mode of Conception (Pt2 Ch4)
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  • beyond their own limits toward the higher problems: What is the nature
  • of work was done inquiring into the nature and extent of the human
  • gives of the nature of living organisms with the words:
  • were nothing but animated dust, then, on the other, all nature, as it
  • that order into nature. If the mind makes a statement about the
  • structure, tossing about within itself problems concerning the nature
  • Unknown factors must rule the change. Darkness was spread over nature,
• Title: Book: RoP: World Conceptions of Scientific Factuality (Pt2 Ch5)
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  • physical processes to the higher formations of nature and to man. His
  • inorganic nature and their operation. Cabanis investigates the
  • the nature of his being, his temperament, and what he makes out of
  • outside in nature if we did not experience within our self-active soul
  • processes of nature. From these more materialistic beginnings there
  • do not merely rule in man's inner life but also outside in nature and
  • nature, which produce these processes in the same arbitrary manner in
  • endeavor to analyze his observations of nature in accordance with
  • nature because it “does away with all artificial and unnatural
  • logically consistent structure. Nature and history have a constitution
  • picture. Nature is everywhere ruled by an all-penetrating law that
  • relevance of thinking, the organ of nature? It is mere foolishness to
  • suppose that nature would create an organ through which it would
  • from human action, to nature. Dühring, as he proceeds from such
  • presuppositions, does not even hesitate to attribute to nature in its
  • creation. “Imagination extends . . . into nature itself; it has
  • attempts could also be observed in nature.
  • The character of the tentative in the formations of nature is not at
  • only one half of the parallelism between nature outside man and nature
  • error or blunder of the objective and non-thinking nature be possibly
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• Title: Book: RoP: Modern Idealistic World Conceptions (Pt2 Ch6)
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  • as take place in lifeless nature. In this respect, he sided entirely
  • nature becomes cold and drab if we do not permeate it with the
  • their inner nature, we would observe not what separates them but what
  • therefore, conceive the inner nature of things as similar to the
  • Lotze expresses his own feeling with regard to the things of nature as
  • manifested toward which the world is striving. The laws of nature are
  • anything beyond a simple metaphysical statement concerning the nature
  • nature as spiritual, as animated. With regard to his own being, man is
  • circumstances to which it is bound in nature. Through the experiment
  • the experiment that leads us to the laws of nature because only in the
  • nature and the conception of the soul life in a way that allowed both
  • life developed independently of and separated from nature, within the
  • of nature. From this fact the necessity arose to find a conception of
  • enough to hold its own in conjunction with the image of nature in a
  • soul, which cannot have any knowledge of its own nature of
  • ocean that could open vistas into the nature of existence. Hegel had
  • imaginations containing nothing of the nature of true being. When, in
  • spiritual element behind a mere external nature. It is for this reason
  • longer. In a transformation of its nature, it has dispersed itself
  • depth of the soul that clings to existence, expressing the nature of
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• Title: Book: RoP: Modern Man and His World Conception (Pt2 Ch7)
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  • Carneri tries to find in the picture of nature the elements through
  • ego with the mother ground of nature, from which it has become
  • other moral commandments than those that result from his own nature.
  • beside all other things of nature but that he is a being that has
  • process of nature on a higher level. Therefore, the question cannot be
  • longer merely looks out into nature; it looks back into itself.
  • dualistically, a break with nature, and man felt himself separated
  • from nature. This breach existed only for him, but for him it was
  • Up to a certain point nature leads life. At this point,
  • wishes.” Nature takes care of a11 other beings, but it endows man
  • As nature gives man only the need for happiness, this image of
  • a contemplative nature. After having surrendered for awhile to the
  • he felt this conception as a foreign element to his own nature,
  • his own nature. The fundamental trait of his character compelled him
  • nature. Others think philosophy; Nietzsche had to live
  • philosophical ideas, sets them aglow with his ardent will-nature and
  • could owe to the contemplative observation of nature. The
  • contemplation of nature shows that the animal becomes man. As the soul
  • he knows as weaving and breathing in human nature.
  • what does he produce through his own inner nature? The question that
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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
  • very nature, sense perception does not present a finished
  • by the nature of his being he changes things from what they really
  • depends without a doubt on the nature of the soul. Does it not follow
  • turns a half-reality to its entirety. It is due to the nature of the
  • nature of things. He cannot see at first the real nature of things
  • nothing to do with the nature of the things themselves. The gap
  • reveal their inner nature, which cannot be perceived in the ordinary
  • that by its very nature is independent of bodily conditions. This is a
  • spiritual life is a true insight into the nature of the ordinary
  • perceive it because of the nature of this consciousness, just as I
  • The true nature of the human soul can be experienced directly
  • senses but that contains the supersensible nature of all plants,
  • individual entity of a higher nature than the individuality of the
  • emerges like a higher human nature for whom the physical man is like a
  • physical world. As the soul thus experiences its spiritual nature, it
  • continued to live in -him and has become a part of his nature. He has
  • realm of his spirit and soul nature. Yet one can also find that this
  • in his physical nature. The rigidity of the body prevents this from
  • originating from the spirit-soul nature, whose existence preceded that
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• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Preface to the 1918 Edition
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  • all-comprehensive way. Such is the nature of human thinking that a
  • a nature that they will necessarily find a great deal of resistance.
• Title: Book: Riddles of Philosophy: Preface to the 1923 Edition
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  • in a cognition concerning the nature of the external world. This point
  • Confronted with nature, the question arises in him of the relation in
  • aware of relations between distant formations of nature that tend to