Toward a Threefold Society
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Toward a Threefold Society
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In the social ferment of postwar Europe in 1919, Steiner presented his
ideas about reforming the basis of society in three fundamental,
autonomous spheres: economic, political/rights, and cultural. For a
short time he worked to bring his ideas into practical application but
it soon became impossible to bring about a "threefold social order" and
he withdrew from the outer work in this area. His ideas have been worked
with over the decades since that time and have proved to be just as
valid today as they were then.
This volume is a presentation of Steiner's central ideas on the
threefold nature of the social organism.
By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith
GA 23
This book was written in 1919, just after the First World
War, and suggests solutions to the social, political and economic problems
of those times. At the end of the book, Steiner writes: "... either people
will accommodate their thinking to the requirements of reality, or they
will have learned nothing from the calamity and will cause innumerable new
ones to occur in the future." History since then has proven these words to
be prophetic. The "social question" has not been resolved, nor have steps
been taken to initiate the healing process. We all too often look to the
political state for the solutions to all social problems, be they of an
economic, cultural or political nature. Steiner's concept of a tripartite,
or threefold society in which the economic, cultural and political spheres
would enjoy relative autonomy within the social organism has not yet been
tried. This book contains his basic ideas for the restructuring of
society.
Frank Thonas Smith has rejuvinated his earlier translation of
Basic Issues of the Social Question. We present it here with his kind
permission, and the permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung,
in Dornach, Switzerland. Bn 23, GA 23, CW 23.
Copyright © 2019
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