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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
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The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science
Rudolf Steiner e.Lib Document
Lectures Section
Here is a First Edition English translation of a series of seven
lectures, entitled
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science, and published in German as,
Erneuerungs-Impuls fuer Kultur und Wissenschaft.
This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical University
Work and the Berlin Branch of the Anthroposophical Society. It was the aim
of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers, to "give an
impression of what suggestions in various fields can be given by
anthroposophy." For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave the introductory
lecture. In these lectures, Steiner explains the relationships between
Anthroposophy and the natural sciences, philosophy, pedagogy, theology,
the social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings to light the biological
differences between humans and animals from an anthroposophical perspective.
By Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz
Bn 81; GA 81; CW 81
Here is a First Edition English translation of a series of seven
lectures, entitled,
The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science,
published in German as,
Erneuerungs-Impuls fuer Kultur und Wissenschaft.
This course was organized by the Federation of Anthroposophical
University Work and the Berlin Branch of the Anthroposophical Society.
It was the aim of the organizers, through lectures by various speakers,
to “give an impression of what suggestions in various fields can be
given by anthroposophy.” For each course day, Rudolf Steiner gave
the introductory lecture. In these lectures, Steiner explains the
relationships between Anthroposophy and the natural sciences, philosophy,
pedagogy, theology, the social sciences, and linguistics. He also brings
to light the biological differences between humans and animals from an
anthroposophical perspective.
This translation is presented here with the kind permission of the
Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung,
Dornach, Switzerland. From Bn 81, GA 81, CW 81.
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| Contents |
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Lecture I: | Anthroposophy and Natural Science |
March 06, 1922 |
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Natural Science: application of methodology from inorganic nature to
other fields; Anthroposophy: Metamorphosing the concepts. Natural
science: rationalistic, anthroposophic: phenomenological conception
of nature. Goethe and Ernst Mach as phenomenologists. Causality
statements after mathematical conceptualization. Goethe's idea of
the “Urpflanze”. Phenomenological “reading.”
Anthroposophy recognizes the justification of mathematical causal
thinking, but not as the only possible system of concepts. Atomism.
– Reflection of the outside world in man, mental-spiritual
and material.
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Lecture II: | The Human and the Animal Organisation |
March 06, 1922 |
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Morphological relationship between humans and animals; Goethe's discovery
of the intermediate jawbone in humans. Upward metamorphosis from the
animal organization to the human. – Biological differentiation
of humans and animals; sensory life as an example. The twelve senses
of man. To be placed in the cosmos of human and animal organization:
vertical or horizontal position of the spine. – Human sensory
perception and the following ideas; vision as an example. Sense of
balance and mathematical ideas. What is effected in the physical
organization of man by his animal-different state of equilibrium?
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Lecture III: | Anthroposophy and Philosophy |
March 07, 1922 |
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Different experiences of philosophy earlier and today. Today to
distinguish philosophy of the West, the Middle and the East. –
West: Herbert Spencer: Orientation to the natural sciences. Strict
separation of science and the religious beliefs of the individual.
Middle: Hegel: union of mental and sensory world, of faith and knowledge.
Hegel's stay in the abstract as tragedy; his logic as a germ to
experience the thought as reality. East: Vladimir Soloviev: Experience
in spirituality. Use of western terms as an illustration for the
mystical experience. – East: philosopher as priest, west:
philosopher as world man, middle: philosopher as teacher. –
Unconscious adoption of western scientific thinking in Central Europe
in the 19th century. No training of concepts in the West, thereby loss
of concepts in the middle. – West: Scientific results as a world
question. Middle: piercing to the thought at Hegel. East: Looking to
what lives above the thought. – Bridges between West and East
through anthroposophy.
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Lecture IV: | Anthroposophy and Pedagogy |
March 08, 1922 |
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The effect of anthroposophic ideas on the whole person. –
speculations about the connection between the spiritual and the
physical of man in psychology. Application of scientific principles
in a metamorphosed way in the anthroposophical view of man.
Relationship between the spiritual and the bodily in the child:
imitative principle in the first epoch of life, principle of authority
in the second. – Unsatisfactory educational methods as a result
of abstract intellectualism. Reading the learning plan and learning
objective in the development of the child in Waldorf education.
– Intellectualism in the third epoch of life, after sexual
maturity. – Intellectual cultural impulse in our age; the
resulting problems in understand the full human nature of the
child and adolescent. Bridge from adult to child world through
anthroposophy. – On dealing with the artistic and intellectual
in Waldorf education. About the mind of the teacher.
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Lecture V: | Anthroposophy and Social Science |
March 09, 1922 |
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The “basic issues of the social question:” demand for a
threefold division of the social organism; Impulses instead of utopian
ideas; Misunderstanding of the book by economics theorists and
practitioners. – Instinctive management of economic life in older
cultures and its penetration with intellectual ideas since the 15th
century. Two currents: economic theoretician, without influence on the
practice, business practitioner, remaining in the instinctive. A kind
of synthesis of the two in today's economic-scientific realism, resulting
in the socio-political legislation. Woodrow Wilson as an abstract
theorist. Through anthroposophy, living social impulses instead of
abstract intellectualist ideas.
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Lecture VI: | Anthroposophy and Theology |
March 10, 1922 |
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Discussion of a note in a theological journal. Fundamentals about the
relationship of anthroposophy to theology and religion. Anthroposophy
as a field of work and research method. – Father God concept was
given to men in ancient times. Atheism as a disease. Understanding of
the Christ event and introduction to the Christ experience through
anthroposophy. Not finding the Christ as a destiny of disaster. Not to
the spirit come as mental limitation.
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Lecture VII: | Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech |
March 11, 1922 |
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Conscious- and subconscious-ness of language. Language as an object of
scientific observation. About a parallel speech before English-speaking
and other listeners: sensory nuances towards “duty” and
“duty.” Language as a nuance of the folk soul. –
Different language life in different time periods. Sanskrit as an
example: the experience of the word manas; Consonants: restrained
gestures, metamorphosed replicas of the external world, vowels: born
out of sympathy and antipathy; the infusion of fantastic imaginations
into the language. – I-feeling in different times. The spiritual
experience of language in the West, in the middle and in the East.
– Wilhelm Wundt and his theories about the origin of language.
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