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• Title: Evil and Spiritual Science
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  • Stoics. And as an ideal for humanity, that strove to insert its
  • purpose in the universe accordingly, the ideal of the wise
  • take us too far, if we were to exhaustively portray the ideals
  • ideal before Stoicism. And that which inserts itself as wisdom
  • his/her freedom towards the ideal of wisdom, the possibility
  • Freedom must reside in striving for the ideal of wisdom. But
  • put the idea of education about evil and wickedness? One must
  • same animal kingdom issues? So Lotze turned away from the idea
  • omnipotence of God would contradict this idea of education;
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 1: Popular Occultism, Introtroduction
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  • a certain amount of instincts, pains, joys, ideals, and passions. They
  • ideal sends out white-gold rays. The painters of past times, who were
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 4: The Devachanic World
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  • find all the fruitful and valuable ideas ever thought out by man. Even
  • there is a thought, an idea. All this is engraved in Devachan.
• Title: Popular Occultism: Lecture 5: Life Between Death and a New Birth
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  • dissolves. In the case of an idealist it will dissolve very quickly.
• Title: i Spirituality: Lecture 1: Historical Symptomology, the Year 790, Alcuin, Greeks, Platonism, Aristotelianism, East, West, Middle, Ego
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  • approach which was then particularly developed, and that it was not the ideas in history that
  • accessible to Humboldt. He spoke of ideas, but ideas indeed have no driving force
  • Ideas as such are abstractions, as I mentioned here yesterday
  • might wish to find ideas as the driving forces of history would never be able to prove that ideas
  • for human beings through ideas.
  • would rather take the whole of Kant's critique for a random game of ideas haphazardly thrown
  • then flowered as German idealistic philosophy in
  • actually brought forth the idea of the State, because it is to this that it can be applied. It is
  • before these minds the idea that they had to create a structure for the State which included the
  • such a thing. For it rests on the standpoint: Oh, the ideals are too lofty, too pure for us to
  • money. The ideals, oh, they're too pure, one can't contaminate them with money! Of course, with
  • purity of this kind the embodiment of ideals cannot be attained, if dirty money is not brought to
  • inauguration of this World Fellowship of Schools when the idea of it already exists. It is simply
  • portray the striving of an idea to attain existence in reality. For it is not always that it
  • succeeds in this at the first attempt; and it is not so rare that the idea degenerates
  • in consciousness the ideas which are its laws, because, permeated only by, these, he can then
  • varieties of supersensible ideas; the sum-total of existence, more or less, is the object of
  • for the ideal of beauty, so history strives for a picture of human destiny in faithful truth,
  • expiation for our sins to death. Alcuin found this manner of expression and the idea behind
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 2: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 1
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  • a completely economic way of thinking, out of the impulses of economic ideas. This is why
  • idea of how one must equip oneself in order that the opposing powers — whether from the
  • Europe, in a way which I shall relate tomorrow — can be met by the threefold idea with an
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 3: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 2
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  • so pale during the day that they appear only as concepts, as ideas. The same applies also to what
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 4: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 3
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  • philosophical treatise. This way of presenting concepts, of developing ideas, was not unfamiliar
  • an experience of the whole human being, forming for himself the ideal of a human constitution of
  • is profundity in intellectual form transformed into ideas. But should one take it just one step
  • only the ideas about the social questions such as those in Goethe's
  • organism in a reforming way. One can only describe as an idealist, as it were, what ought to take
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 5: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 4
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  • form an exact idea of what the constitution of soul was like in the people who lived before this
  • impossible an event like this, resting as it did on an idealistic spiritual background, has
  • human system of ideas; but only, if I can put it so, artistic elaborations of it. In neither
  • idea of what had previously existed as a longing for knowledge.
  • idea of the faculties rising up out of the human soul that are higher than the faculties
  • one has to put it in inverted commas — get the strangest ideas these days. Someone said to
  • generally today: that they have no will — to form ideas concerning true progress. They
  • idea of this, but it will be so nevertheless. People will discover, in fact, how the objects of
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 6: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 5
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  • create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had
  • human consciousness in the idealistic philosophy of Central Europe asserted itself, as it were,
  • nineteenth century when the idealistic philosophy of Central Europe was born. We see then how the
  • idealistic philosophy of Central Europe. It has ceased to exist since the middle of the
  • West who have no idea what the conditions for life are in the Centre. In Zurich people listen to
  • makes known about the predestination of Czechoslovakia, because they have no idea of the
  • brought forth such idealistic heights — such ideas as one finds in
• Title: New Spirituality: Lecture 7: The New Spirituality and the Christ Experiance of the Twentieth Century - 6
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  • encapsulate themselves in their habitual ideas so that nothing can penetrate which conflicts with
  • last decades, ideas which have become familiar through nineteenth-century scientific development
  • constitution of soul in which the civilized world was before 1914 when all talk of ideals, all
  • that the Imaginations sought are the result of when the mental activity of forming ideas is
  • ideals or the like is useless if one is not prepared to look at this element that is living as a
• Title: Abbreviated Title: Lecture I:
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  • Spiritual Science. I will now give you only the chief ideas needed for the
  • feelings and ideas. The children in turn did the same with their own
  • destroyed and annihilated. Consequently this idea of the destructive
• Title: Talk To Young People:
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  • never knew Rousseau or his ideas.
• Title: "Heaven and Earth will pass away but my words will not pass away"
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  • perceptions, conceptions and ideas today — we have all this as
  • conscious ideas, which, for them, are imaginations. Our dreams are
  • becomes ideas for the Angeloi Beings, and they change these to
  • conceptions are aiming. Materialists hate the very idea that Jupiter
  • holds a nebulous idea, for the concrete fact is that everything is
  • explain how childish an idea it is, to imagine the atoms of the earth
  • ourselves entirely with this idea. We must not expect that we can carry
  • lectures I mentioned something relative to the idea — which must
  • down under his feeling of defeat. That is the idea. What its completion
  • result would be a symbolical representation of an idea — part of
  • course, when one tried to describe some complicated idea in so crass
  • relationship between great world-discussions and the simple idea! One
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture I: Tree of Life - I
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  • natural, has made use of already existing ideas in asking itself:
  • — how the ideas of Greek philosophy endeavoured to
  • amaterialistic, but an entirely nonsensical idea that the attenuated
  • how Roman thought is at great pains to seize with its ideas what lay
  • every possible way to draw ideas from the whole range of world
  • western world of idea, in this world of world-conception, the living
  • evolved, refined philosophical ideas of the Graeco-Latin world. In
  • refined concepts and ideas.
  • one does not hold the false ideas of modern materialism and formalism
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture II: Tree of Life - II
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  • for himself, and for us remain only the abstract ideas, the dead
  • observing things, forming ideas and concepts of them. Then of course
  • we also combine ideas, but between birth and death we always couple
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture III: The Power of Thought
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  • through what we conceive in ideas.
  • they have no real idea that one can also come into connection with
  • ideal is also only attained in the farthest future; but a beginning
  • idea which was active in the conception of the old republican Roman,
  • from the cosmos. Nor was this idea confined to the government of
  • ideas, but received them as outflow of the divine being. So too in
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture IV: Harmonizing Thinking, Feeling and Willing
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  • connected with the forming of our ideas and concepts, is in a certain
  • receives as concepts and ideas, and how he does not notice that at
  • production of certain spheres of ideation on the basis of those
  • confuses the one with the other. Ideas, concepts, sense impressions,
  • so many people not understand it? Why do they connect no right ideas
  • incompatible with the ideas which man receives from external reality.
  • must grasp something that contradicts his ideas of reality. Now to
  • open to ideas which permit an understanding of the Mystery of
  • People investigate the inanimate, and have no idea that everything
  • the dead. That is the ideal and goal of the whole modern world
  • ther dead one. But when we hold living ideas, then we shall no longer
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture V: Tree of Knowledge - I
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  • Among the very varied ideas which we have — I
  • certain role in the whole state of our earth existence, is the idea
  • avails himself of the assistance of the space and time idea. But in
  • possession-concept is developed' one does not need the idea of space
  • idea of space and time. You come out into a world where space and
  • earth through the possession-idea. They will then present something
  • illusion — the idea that things pass away; in
  • that man evolves ideas of possession; for in a world of flowing
  • one really gets the truly living idea that the human soul nature is
• Title: Tree of Life/Knowledge: Lecture VI: Tree of Knowledge - II
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  • alteration in our ideas, if we wish to press forward to
• Title: World Downfall and Resurrection
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  • thought and idea in those first centuries of Christendom was
  • but knows as an Angel. This idea — which springs
  • associated the idea not only of one single Godhead of the
  • he saw an Ideal world. He beheld the workings of certain forces
  • centuries of Christendom were imbued with the idea that the
  • the ideas and mental outlook of those who lived in the first
  • were bristling with inadequate ideas, such as that of a world
• Title: Lecture: Philosophy and Anthroposophy
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  • sum of natural operations. It may become an ideal of knowledge to
  • of Nature. With genuine Natural Science this ideal is justifiable. It may
  • ideal of Natural Science. Yet it is essential that we should, in the face
  • of this rightful ideal, press forward to an insight promoted by a sound
  • be to our inner life, with its thirst for knowledge. True to its ideal,
  • to cherish the hope that ideal natural scientific knowledge can enlighten
  • that someone or other expresses himself in ideas, but round the question
  • the wisdom of the Mysteries, which he translated into concepts and ideas.
  • has no access to them), and works exclusively with the technique of ideas.
  • by his own ideas and conceptions. We could not describe Kant's fundamental
  • be conceived except in the sense of the ideas given above. I often recall a
  • matter of the theory of knowledge, Aristotle already admitted ideas to
  • technique of concepts and ideas. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science seeks
  • point the writer's intention was to show how ideas within the range of
  • transmitted. He is a materialist even though he deem himself an idealist
  • to correspond with form-reality. To Aristotle the idea of God is a pure
  • thought he attains to the idea of the “I.” Upon this level (in
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture I: The Pedagogy of the West and of Central Europe: The Inner Attitude of the Teacher
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  • feelings, the ideas, the will impulses of the next generation. We must be
  • ideas considered reasonable in Central Europe today, you would find their
  • scientific researchers or thinkers. It is true, this sort of idea is
  • as ideas — such knowledge can have no practical value.
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture II: The Three Fundamental Forces in EducatioN
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  • longer be spoken to in the manner of today, but only in ideas and inner
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture III: Spiritual Knowledge of Man as the Fount of Educational Art
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  • Ideas
  • ideas like these, if only for five minutes a day, our whole inner life of
• Title: Meditative Knowledge of Man: Lecture IV: The Art of Education Consists of Bringing Into Balance the Physical and Spiritual Nature of the Developing Human Being
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  • must permeate history with ideas, must show the great connections. Thus,
  • of history with ideas which pervade periods of time further the ego's union
• Title: Social Understanding: Lecture II: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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  • the source of youthful ideals between the fourteenth and the twenty-first
  • in the physical body for these ideals of youth, are the same forces you can
  • idealists and other people materialists. The assimilation of foodstuffs in
  • are the same as the forces at work in a process of ideas, namely the force
  • materialistic nor idealistic, but are capable of following up the ideal
  • aspect of what is presented as idea. The spiritual quality of a world
  • is for the “dregs” of humanity, and over here is idealism, which is for the
  • nature every time that determines what you do. And it is ideal if the
  • and do not get down to developing ideas about a world that is not limited
  • social ideas, but if people shy away from acquiring any knowledge of man
• Title: Lecture: Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible
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  • person to be convinced of another. On that account, spreading ideas is so
  • a real idea of the connection between the sensible and supersensible! The
  • proceeding to such concrete ideas do real thoughts reveal themselves
  • definite ideas of the connection between the physical and the
  • humanity. Nowadays people are glad if they can gain a rough idea of
• Title: Raphael's Mission in the Light of the Science of the Spirit
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  • ideas.
  • ideas, but the entire city-state. Florence stood wholly under
  • ideas appear in many respects in a new form. We see the most
  • a proper idea of what lived within him.
  • us inwardly, this enables us to forget all legendary ideas from
  • ideas, but forms them into a picture. By virtue of its inner
  • we should not think that the Christian ideas could appear to us
  • the ancient Greeks had united their idea of the gods with what
  • as little as one can still gain an idea of it — the
  • can gain little idea of what Raphael once conjured onto the
• Title: Leonardo's Spiritual Stature: Lecture
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  • marvelled at the tremendous idea that comes to expression in
  • received this impression of the underlying idea of the picture
  • terms of the idea that has just been haltingly enunciated, but
  • partly the painting as such; it is also the idea that
  • Leonardo would first of all let the idea arise of whatever he
  • world. Natural science evolved in this way. But new ideas, new
  • imprinted itself on souls. The ideas of natural science live in
  • medium. And today, in that natural scientific ideas are
  • found even today. Leonardo had the most wonderful ideas that
  • ideas both in his written works and in his artistic
• Title: The Worldview of Herman Grimm in Relation to Spiritual Science
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  • Goethe, a grand, a colossal idea had stood before him —
  • the idea of viewing occidental cultural life as a whole in the
  • idea stood before his mind's eye of following three millennia
  • stood before his soul, though not as a general abstract idea,
  • that the idea had floated before him of a portrayal of the
  • impressions then become bold, powerful ideas — and what
  • with the same subtlety of ideas, Herman Grimm does venture,
  • that, in collecting his ideas on Goethe for publication, he
  • is an idea with which those who approach closer to spiritual
  • indicates the idea of karma, the idea of the causal connection
  • then appear in a certain way corresponding to the ideas of
  • exception to his ‘elbows’ in the general exchange of ideas.
  • themselves aright, who differ from him in their ideas and in
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 1
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  • Ideas for a New Europe: Crisis and Opportunity for the West.
  • do so. But his right rested more or less on something ideal, which
  • — protest against the idea of men as representatives of God.
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 2
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  • Ideas for a New Europe: Crisis and Opportunity for the West.
• Title: Imperialism: Lecture 3
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  • Ideas for a New Europe: Crisis and Opportunity for the West.
  • idealism, not to mention materialism — for they are practically
  • People have quite a skimpy idea about this
  • the dead, of the non-living in the world. As we still have no idea of
  • economic imperialism of Great Britain and even a certain idea of
  • Protestant circles the idea has arisen that the Church is only the
  • Suddenly from the imperialism of platitudes comes the idea that it
  • Wilsonian ideas if they really had the intense desire for truthful
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture I: Anthroposophy and Natural Science
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  • corresponding manner. In any case, with the idea of further
  • regards under such an idea as the expansion of thinking. A
  • metamorphosed idea need to be contained, so that if you want to
  • internally. Take for instance a simple example of Euclidean
  • ‘This is no experience, this is an idea.’ Schiller actually
  • been spun out of oneself, it is good as an idea and as a
  • then I can see my ideas with my eyes.’
  • ideal image of the Ur-plant would be rediscovered in each plant
  • Italy, how he developed the idea of the Ur-plant ever further.
  • Plants”, p. 86: “The idea of such laws for the design
  • of the plant was first developed by Goethe in his idea of
  • ‘Urpflanz’, what he put forth as the primal, or ideal
  • to say: ‘Then I see my ideas with my eyes.’ He saw them with
  • “idea”, because he found complete resonance in the
  • experience of building an idea; just like a mathematician
  • ideas. This led Goethe, if I might say so, through an inner
  • naively: ‘Then I see my ideas in Nature’ — which were
  • was Goethe's goal with the development of his idea of the
  • Ur-plant, which he came to, and the idea of the Ur-animal, at
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture II: The Human and the Animal Organisation
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  • anthroposophical ideas relate historically to the Goethean
  • which simply supports ideas which are torn free from the
  • about these ideas and the results will actually be a way for
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture III: Anthroposophy and Philosophy
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  • who lean towards the former idealistic philosophy. There were
  • utterance to Schiller was obvious: “I see my ideas with
  • state that the idea of the triangle is not to be grasped,
  • the idea of higher spirituality came about for Hegel, that on
  • This is on the one side. Now how did Hegel develop this idea of
  • it, then all the ideas of empiricism and rationalism
  • tragedy that Hegel could only care for abstract ideas, which he
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture IV: Anthroposophy and Pedagogy
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  • view understandable, it is always accused of having its ideas
  • ideas about the supersensible, before it became possible to
  • Whatever is taken up through anthroposophic ideas, when they
  • merely theoretical observation, are no mere ideas of
  • other need for theoretical knowledge. No, these conveyed ideas
  • While the ideas and thoughts of usual science, which only draw
  • sense world, by contrast it is characteristic of the ideas from
  • through anthroposophical ideas, one can see how the actions of
  • ideas, acquire greater power, greater urgency and so on. This
  • concepts and ideas of human knowledge, then the accusations
  • regarding the alienation of the world of ideas is solved by
  • the social areas. It breeds in relation to ideation actually
  • abstract ideas — how the child copies and adapts to his
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture V: Anthroposophy and Social Science
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  • —; that these ideas would be made
  • be fixed in a manuscript. It is not important that ideas are
  • say the following. The network of intellectual ideas is too
  • national economic ideas of Adam Smith, as in everything which
  • natural foundations of production simply as ideas being thought
  • form thoughts and ideas about capital and labour and so on, and
  • they believe these ideas must always have the same validity. It
  • doesn't have mobile ideas moving within life.
  • ideas, which can teach you how you can provide your ideas with
  • forces of growth and inner mobility and that with such ideas —
  • Anthroposophical grounds towards social ideas but to arrive at
  • should have said: social ideas or social thoughts, because the
  • indicating realities and not abstract ideas. Obviously one had
  • to express oneself in abstract ideas.
  • even those very ideas which were considered at that time as
• Title: Impulse for Renewal: Lecture VI: Anthroposophy and Theology
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  • the creation of ideas and concepts, which are needed for
  • soul through the mind's categories where ideas are experienced
  • world of ideas live, there is something which goes beyond the
• Title: Impulse of Renewal: Lecture VII: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech
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  • appeared. Ideas about language have in many cases become
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 3
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  • only a reflected ideation.
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 4
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  • with ourselves. We should develop the idea that the esoteric
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 5
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  • notice it because with normal consciousness we have no idea of
• Title: First Class, Vol. I: Lesson 6
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  • closed concepts arise, closed ideas. If it encloses something
  • else, in waves, the ideas of self-movement arise. It is merely
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 10
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  • idea of what it is. But that is not true. It is not a mere
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 11
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  • dwelling places of the gods. And in doing so had a truer idea
  • have the idea that the sky, that the periphery, that the
  • We should try to attain such an ideal setting, that is,
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 13
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  • carry us forward. This is the most convenient idea one can
  • Flashes in the clouds; form the idea of clouds in
  • again with the idea of “flashing
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 14
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  • dreamer who confuses dreaming for idealism and who is
• Title: First Class, Vol. II: Lesson 17
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  • Thus we have an idea about the cosmic creation behind the sensory
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXIV (recapitulation)
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  • an idea of the nature of will we should look to the world's
• Title: First Class Lessons: Lesson XXVI (recapitulation)
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  • arbitrariness called “human ideals”; rather must
  • the School or not. So, a free, ideal-spiritual contract, so to
  • observation, we acquire an idea of how gods and humans
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture I: The True Form of the Social Question
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  • Winter of 1919 at Zurich, Switzerland. Here Steiner profers ideas to
  • of ideals. This is the most moving. In particular, it is most
  • this idea that labour is sold to the employee just like goods,
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture II: Comparisons at Solving the Social Question based on Life's Realities
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  • Winter of 1919 at Zurich, Switzerland. Here Steiner profers ideas to
  • not progressed as far as these ideas I'm indicating here, out
  • ideals, they will soon come to the view that such observations
  • valid. He found these three ideals to be contradictory.
  • human experience regarding these three ideals. Why these?
  • Because as soon as the true sense of these three ideals become
  • person, it works with the activation of the idea of equality.
  • independently in the social organism, it deals with the idea of
  • freedom. Now suddenly the three golden ideals gain their real
  • ideal of freedom, equality and brotherhood.
  • could not grasp the idea that public law, the law which relates
  • here with ideas which I believe I can recognise in frequently
  • program or ideal but it is the result of observation of those
  • idea that it doesn't merely involve an assertion of inner
  • impractical ideal but as an actual practical application in
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture III: Fanaticism Versus a Real Conception of Life in Social Thinking and Willing
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  • Winter of 1919 at Zurich, Switzerland. Here Steiner profers ideas to
  • ordinary sense call a social ideal. What lives in it doesn't
  • religious impulse towards all possible ideals, everything which
  • less authority — had expressed certain ideal ways towards
  • outer practical living conditions, draws up some social ideal,
  • to present spiritually. The idealist utopians who insist
  • finely thought-out social ideals are not the worst, because as
  • than what it can be as a mere mirror image of ideas and
  • believe they only have ideas and mirror images containing some
  • theories or mere religious ideas, but with someone who wants to
  • the experience belonging to technical ideas and work in a
  • other way, what in truth is not some abstract idealism, but is
  • that the real practical people can be notorious idealists who
  • idealists who can really penetrate the realities of life, have
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture IV: The Evolution of Social Thinking and Willing and Life's Circumstances for Current Humanity
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  • Winter of 1919 at Zurich, Switzerland. Here Steiner profers ideas to
  • as the so-called physiocratic national economic ideas. Earlier
  • a single economy as is the ideal of many modern socialists.
  • idea which has come about in the more recent history that the
  • technically experienced ideas which can only develop with
  • productive idea, which is so productive that true human
  • these ideas can only be born within a self-supporting,
  • meaning of the renewal of the old platonic idea of dividing the
  • state.’ No, this is no renewal of old platonic ideas but is in
  • thinking suffers under the influence of the feeling, the idea,
  • historic viewpoint, how these ideas I have been exploring as
  • idea that the war has its point of origin in the relation of
  • presented here is no program, it is not an ideal; it
  • right idea to come forward at the right time. As a result, I
  • possible to accomplish practical results of ideas suggested
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture V: The Social Will as the Basis Towards a New, Scientific Procedure
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  • Winter of 1919 at Zurich, Switzerland. Here Steiner profers ideas to
  • goodwill, their ideas and so on. There has, if I may say so,
  • Just think back to the great ideals of the French Revolution:
  • Freedom, Equality and Brotherhood. Whoever followed these ideas
  • you grasp the idea which already today appear in this intention
  • which is expressed in the ideals of Freedom, Equality and
  • It should be completely permeated with the idea, the principle,
• Title: The Social Question: Lecture VI: What Significance does Work have for the Modern Proletarian?
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  • Winter of 1919 at Zurich, Switzerland. Here Steiner profers ideas to
  • One needs to realize how incisive Karl Marx's ideas
  • entire social organism as well? Out of this the ideals have
  • originated in the same way as the ideals the modern
  • can be offered by reverting back to the ancient idea of the
  • supplemented the ideas which the modern Proletarians were taken
  • sides: the life of rights and the economic life, the ideal of a
  • ideas contradict thought habits of some people at present, the
  • life, must admit that the very frowned-upon idealists who think
  • derived from the most ancient idea of the social life and how
  • ideal does not reach the lowest wage-labourer? Obviously here
  • rise towards social ideals. The student has to overcome various
  • to also speak to young students, whose ideals appear
  • organisations being newly recreated, according to new ideas,
• Title: Lecture: Richard Wagner and Mysticism
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  • definite ideas. Whether or not one is justified in speaking of it, is
  • associated ‘Mysticism’ with all ideas about which there is something
  • of the greatest possible clarity — a world where ideas shine into
  • ideas and conceptions of a Mystic can be as lucid and clear as
  • direction, and out of this feeling was born his idea of a
  • the one side and of Beethoven on the other. This was the idea
  • underlying all his work — an idea that had arisen from profound
  • Nifelheim were condensing, and they conceived the idea that the water
  • transformed. The idea living in the minds of the Knights of the Grail
  • Grail Ideal will be fulfilled when man brings forth his like with the
  • ideal was known as the Holy Grail the transformed reproductive organs
  • And now let us see how this sublime ideal lived on the heart and soul
  • first idea of Parsifal was born. Many things happened in the
  • feeling and let the ideas in their totality stand before our souls.
  • said to himself: The art which is living in me as an ideal must at the
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  • giving any idea of their significance. Naturally it is difficult for
  • Plato to the Idea of the Good in relation to the other Ideas. Deussen
  • the Ideas subsist in and through themselves. Plato could not
  • acknowledge God as a Being because the Ideas are primary and
  • subsistent. True — says Deussen — Plato places the Idea of
  • the Good above the other Ideas, but he did not thereby imply that the
  • Idea of the Good stands above the others. — For what is expressed
  • in the Idea of the Good is, after all, only a kind of family-likeness
  • which is present in all the Ideas. — Such is Deussen's argument.
  • But now let us scrutinise this logic more closely. The Ideas are
  • there. They are subsistent and independent. The Idea of the Good
  • cannot be said to rule or direct the other Ideas. All Ideas bear a
  • the Idea of the Good. Yes — but whence are family-likenesses
  • derived? A family-likeness is derived from stock. The Idea of
  • ideas. The great spiritual picture to which Plato tried to lift the
  • Divine Spirit. Plato said in effect: the Ideas are the lowest
  • the ideas, and this is at a lower level than the picture itself.
  • Nevertheless, Aristotle could still receive the substance of the ideas
  • We can form some idea of how such men were wont to speak, if we study
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  • according to all these various aspects of the great ideals of
  • source which gave form to the Anthroposophical ideas, as the
  • from drab theories, not from abstract ideas.
  • Community-building! It is most remarkable that the idea of
  • day. The present ideal of community-building results from an
  • elemental and profound feeling in many human souls; the ideal
  • children. Just imagine the ideal instance: that anyone should
  • manifest which may become manifest in such an ideal instance as
  • world. Now, my dear friends, no matter how beautiful the ideas
  • through the implanting of spiritual idealism within a human
  • idealism. But the truth is that within our contemporary culture
  • and civilization idealism is something rather threadbare. For
  • real idealism exists only when the human being can be conscious
  • likewise, when he lifts up into the ideal something he has seen
  • experience so spiritually and ideally what we experience in the
  • the ideal, it then suddenly becomes alive.” It becomes
  • with will, apply your enthusiasm to it, then, as you idealize
  • in the forming of our ideas of the spiritual, we are actually
  • something which does not simply so idealize the sensible that
  • the ideal becomes an abstract thought but idealizes it in such
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  • Society. This has not been stressed with the idea that the
  • necessary to become fully conscious of clear ideas.
  • The ideal of Anthroposophy, as a way
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  • them. We have no clear idea today of the extent to which
  • ancestor was unable to form ideas independently of the
  • forming ideas on the basis of thought. Within the great
  • to feel themselves connected, in forming those ideas that
  • ideas of the West have a great deal of human
  • get an idea concerning the total philosophy that lies
  • how some are idealists or spiritualists and others are
  • sphere. It is just that the idea of positive and negative
  • much effort to grasp it as it does to grasp the idea that
  • errors when we try and apply such ideas to real life. One
  • real idea of what it meant to connect one's life to the
  • even the slightest idea of the living connection which
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  • ourselves: European ideas do not make it easy to grasp
  • want to get Europeans to appreciate Asian ideas, as
  • itself able to take in the ideas coming from Asia.
  • that the people were able to rise to a world of ideas
  • ideas in such a way that whilst living in these abstract
  • ideas one was not in the sphere of death but in the
  • instance, and by German idealist philosophers. It is not
  • of concepts and ideas in a way that was very much alive.
  • pupil who reiterates their ideas. There is no point
  • encounter your own ideas of the spirit as a Western
  • initiate unless you can see your own ideas repeated by
  • am not going to repeat your ideas. That implies some
  • possible to evolve social ideas nowadays unless we base
  • ideas. A social system born wholly out of Western
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  • considering. They may help to make some of the ideas on
  • for ideas that are less abstract than the vast majority
  • of ideas by which people allow themselves to be governed
  • today. We really need such concrete ideas, for they are
  • only ideas to fire the human will and human actions.
  • ideas about these things, ideas that fully relate to
  • times the idea of a ruler of the realm, as we may call it
  • earlier ideas — was quite different from what we
  • take it to mean today. The idea of the ruler of an
  • their idea of a god. These things inevitably must seem
  • concrete ideas as to how a ruler should be prepared for
  • the one and only idea we have today when we speak of
  • practically all our ideas today on development, education
  • People have the idea that only some aspect or other of
  • there before. No one has that idea. I could characterize
  • things and to form ideas that have their basis in
  • The idea
  • hold today, ideas only three or four hundred years old as
  • ideas until quite recent times. After all there existed
  • also the ideas behind St Augustine's City of God
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  • have no idea of human evolution, who know nothing of the
  • proper idea of current events one would have to take
  • as regards the way they form ideas, present-day people
  • only suitable for the forming of ideas during the Middle
  • sensibilities and forming ideas. These are the people who
  • them all over the globe. The ideas current among them
  • comes from what should ideally be a truly honest, sincere
  • ideas produced in the head, and there is a definite
  • ideals expressed in those lines would then become
  • ideal! I do not think it is right to continue with this
  • want is to hold on to the old ideas. If we had some kind
  • form ideas, except for sensory powers — have come
  • the greatest opposition to this idea? The greatest
  • that Aristotle represented these ideas on the basis of
  • misunderstood Platonic ideas, saying that a fresh soul is
  • people wishing to represent such Aristotelian ideas
  • teaching Christian Ideas from their pulpits, but
  • Aristotelian ideas that had crept into Christian
  • beliefs also contain an infinite number of ideas deriving
  • towards anthroposophy to form sufficiently clear ideas;
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  • more recent times given rise to an idea that is believed
  • through the organism. This idea of the human heart being
  • much harm if people have entirely the wrong idea about
  • the wrong idea about the nature of the human heart that
  • right or the wrong idea about the heart.’ But this
  • humankind is absolutely full of wrong ideas, completely
  • upside-down ideas. One might well think, if one was
  • serious about it, that being hung up on wrong ideas would
  • be ready to develop social ideas that can be put into
  • the idea of a threefold social order offends people
  • production. The idea is now to compare the actual facts
  • the views, the ideas, the cultural life of humankind.
  • The ideas
  • idea has come up in Dornach, for example, of issuing a
  • sense of reality. The threefold idea is true to reality
  • realization. Many people's ideas are however so
  • unrealistic that the idea of threefoldness goes against
  • is for this idea to be taken up by a sufficiently large
  • follow a particular idea. This would make it unfruitful
  • idea as far as it can go, but they are not unworldly
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  • a matter, for instance, of bringing Spengler's idea of
  • serious account when we form our ideas of the present,
  • be real but use them as ideograms, ideal points in space.
  • physical or ideal points. What matters is whether you
  • starting point or whether you consider the idea of such
  • ideas you find yourself in a materialism that must lead
  • ideas to take hold of reality. We cannot do so whilst we
  • necessary to arrive at a very definite idea, even if this
  • presented as ideas, can be made into the essence of
  • ideas. They then become truth and knowledge. It is also
  • forget about mere ideas and seek to find them—in
  • ways of a child, forming ideas in play, has to be called
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  • cannot get a clear idea concerning these things. We see
  • idealists or spiritualists because they follow a
  • ideas and concepts has nothing to do with merely agreeing
  • logical ideas must be replaced with ideas relating to
  • to refute Oswald Spengler's ideas. That is by no means
  • physical world we are idealists, sceptics, realists,
  • said that when it comes to abstract ideas the physical
  • anthroposophists have no idea of the methods that are
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  • the idea that the human body is a temple. In early times
  • they presented to humanity, notions that the ideal was to
  • lie in the ideas put forward by Buechner, Moleschott or
  • supersensible sphere. The idea that Rome might lead the
  • have to learn to develop their ideas on principles other
  • will not tell you what your ideas about the world ought
  • and that people have ideas about this Christ. The point
  • has to be prepared before one forms an idea of the
  • way the real idea of the Christ has gradually disappeared
  • i.e. after death, for that is an idea that can be
  • and took the threefold idea from that manuscript. Of
  • maintains that the threefold idea was plagiarized from
  • you want to get an idea, let me recommend this work to
  • least idea of the actual source. These articles say
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  • the physical basis of our life of ideas, must have
  • the ideal model of himself and was able to say to
  • himself: ‘My ideal model looks like this. This
  • had experience of the ideal model, the idea out of which
  • spirits — the heavenly and divine ideal of an
  • and divine ideal.
  • those heavenly and divine ideals before they were
  • given the ideal image of the human being. They saw life
  • of that ideal. This heavenly and divine ideal had been
  • alight and alive, the ideal image the human being had of
  • to hold in awareness. Some people already have an idea of
  • infants, but the idea is there. In the ancient Orient
  • all political ideas were developed further by Wilhelm von
  • Beautiful Lily basically presents the idea of the
  • West, ideas that have so far developed only in relation
  • evolve into the threefold social order. The idea of the
  • ideas. The book has even been translated into German,
  • therefore be said that the idea of a threefold social
  • instinctive ideals became the life of the spirit. The
  • idea of the state developed by Humboldt, Schiller, Herder
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  • ideas which has continued into the present from prehistoric times has
  • no idea that really and fundamentallY something quite different was going
  • has been no corresponding change in people's ideas.
  • had gone before. You can get an idea of the different forms it took if
  • with ideas thought up by human individuals and so on. The things people
  • the two. First of all, however, we must get a definite idea as to what we
  • and made comprehensible through abstract ideas, in short, the things that
  • phenomena. They have not the least idea that demonic spirits are active
  • get an idea as to what was coming. The 19th century brought events which
  • of the 19th-century idealists. Those idealistic thinkers pretended to
  • thoughts and ideas. Yet it arises in a form similar to fear. You will
  • blessing for humankind; but it cannot develop from the ideas of
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  • bring light and warmth into all the ideals we are capable
  • begin with is more in form of concepts, of ideas. We must
  • ideas. So we may indeed say that modern scientific
  • started with completely abstract ideas. The first was the
  • idea of logical necessity. He said to himself:
  • not exist in that case.’ The second idea in
  • are at a spiritual level. We link ideas, but in doing so
  • build everything up on the basis of three abstract ideas.
  • ideal. 19th century scientists said, and present-day
  • book. Those tombs are the true ideals of the modern
  • personal enthusiasm, personal engagement, for every idea
  • individuality. Schiller's abstract ideas therefore still
  • ideas to leave that realm and enter into a totally
  • go as far as the development of abstract ideas. Goethe
  • did not find it possible to form such abstract ideas. He
  • fairytale figures. The time had not yet come when ideas
  • the idea came up of putting on a play in Munich and the
  • developing abstract ideas in his letters on aesthetic
  • attempted to express in abstract ideas in his letters on
  • Christ filled. By bringing the Christ idea into science
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  • can get an idea of it if you consider that here man makes the
  • with bliss, you can get an idea of that if you look at a chicken
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  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • beauty as the arrangement of a place devoted to ideal spiritual
  • sight of a noble, selfless devotion to an ideal, through
  • the furtherance of an ideal, spiritual task, even if it be on a
  • regard to these things. An idea is prevalent that it is easy to
  • Therefore, we ought to get some idea how future ages will look
  • educational ideas, has felt no more than that he was dealing
  • wish to remain stationary in the forms of ideas already
  • you an idea of the necessities of our present age. I speak in
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  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • mentioned. The treatment generally given to-day to the idea
  • instructing about the true ideals of education! He began by
  • about twenty years of age he feels shame at the idea of
  • altered their ideas somewhat, but not their feelings. You hear
  • will be so much extended that we shall incline to ideas which
  • have given you an idea of how to work up into the sphere of the
  • reality, but with those of an olden time. We have no idea what
  • our views of the world, we really construct ideas still suited
  • the cud of Greek knowledge, to allow the Roman political ideas
  • forms of which people at present have no idea. We must grasp
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  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • thoughts and unfold ideas of the scientific, materialistic type
  • ideas and this scientific view of the world the physical body
  • understanding of what is included in our idea of the Threefold
  • ideas which spring entirely from a living view of these
  • day (perhaps with the idea of showing a little monarchical
  • perverse fantasy to cling to our own pet ideas because they
  • idealists, we are compelled to speak. No pity should prevent
  • comfortable ideas. In this sphere, also, reality must be seen
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  • on a major campaign to publicize his 'threefold' ideas for society. In addition
  • in dealing with the social question, to abandon limited ideas
  • acquiring social and socialist ideas. Unless we have gone
  • ideas to which for years the proletariat had devoted itself
  • last three or four hundred years, developed no ideas which can,
  • their own course. Their thoughts and ideas had become so
  • life, in which protection and similar ideas had been
  • motive for regulation; in which ideas were active, not moulding
  • purpose than is customary. It is, after all, obvious that ideas
  • idealist,” not to say a fool. What I was then obliged to
  • time from some knowledge of its underlying idea. What did these
  • but lacks the effective ideas necessary to the practice of
  • the one-sided ideas derived from Marx. So we find that in the
  • in the soul the idea of how beautiful the economic life could
  • have power over the facts, but no idea how to use it to control
  • ideas which have no correspondence with the facts.
  • expressions like “the lack of ideas in the practice of
  • ideas? Can they be regarded merely as a subject for logical
  • actually to fitting the idea of the threefold organization into
  • lectures, books and the experiences of men who had living ideas
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