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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Cover Sheet
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Contents
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Forword
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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  • this series of lectures in 1920 was at once informed by Steiner that
  • that such a renewal requires a renewal of our thinking (one must remember
  • that he was speaking of the groping and soul-searching that followed the
  • progress however has not been uniformly smooth. Steiner reminds us that
  • What is the source of the consciousness with which we examine the outer
  • Steiner finds a parallel to an earlier development, that of medieval
  • conceived in observing external nature? Steiner argues that we cannot.
  • He suggests that scientific research is entangling itself in a web,
  • and that only outside this web can we find the real world. The great
  • because it is powerless to explain the consciousness that directs it.
  • that Steiner is “anti-science” would be a great mistake. To
  • conceptual thinking that we become fully human. Spiritual development
  • the view that pure thinking does not exist, but is bound to contain
  • that philosophers who maintain this have never really studied mathematics,
  • world, and as it is entirely based upon rules of reason that are universal
  • tells us explicitly that out of sense-free thinking “there can flow
  • think that there
  • depth that we ascribe to the inner darkness and the mysterious discoveries
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Translators' Notes
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture I
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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  • result of what I believe to be an open-minded consideration of the needs
  • to human beings of all stations and classes an existence that seems
  • circles that social renewal must begin with a renewal of our thinking.
  • humane existence? That portion of humanity which has received an education
  • century, has been raised with certain ideas that are outgrowths of the
  • working in fields other than the sciences believe that natural science
  • that even in the newer, more progressive theology, in history and in
  • as those that arose from the scientific experiments of the last centuries,
  • so that traditional concepts have in a certain way been altered to conform
  • every turn it had in mind certain scientific conceptions that it wanted
  • about what one might call a transformation of the old social instincts
  • But what was this new
  • element that had entered into social science, into this favorite son of
  • modern thought? It was the conceptions, the new mode of thinking that had
  • world's rumbling, if we consider all the hopeless prospects that result
  • from the attempts that are made on the basis of these conceptions,
  • that we have acquired from natural science and now wish to apply to
  • our lives, concepts that — this has become clearly evident in
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture II
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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  • need to become fully human. And in just what way one can strive for
  • an answer, in what way the ignorabimus can be overcome to fulfil the
  • a cycle of lectures with a title such as ours that nothing be introduced
  • that might interfere with the objective presentation of ideas, I would
  • it becomes inevitable that one indicate the personalities with whom
  • since the question we want above all to answer is: what can be gleaned
  • from modern scientific theories that can become a vital social thinking
  • realize that the series of considerations one undertakes is no longer
  • world view and the dissolution of that world view, behind that which
  • something even more important. It is something that begins to impress
  • and in the philosophical literature with somewhat more respect than
  • that Eduard von Hartmann had been quite right in claiming that during
  • in the many volumes that sit in the libraries. Those who know Hegel
  • last few decades and had heard what was discussed there; anyone with
  • any sense for the source of the mode of thinking that had entered into
  • could see that this mode of thinking had originated with Hegel and flowed
  • find that the Hegelian mode of thinking had permeated to the farthest
  • reaches of Russian cultural life. One thus could say that, anonymously,
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture III
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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  • We have seen that one
  • the essential nature of consciousness. Yesterday we showed already what
  • happens at the one limit to knowledge. We have seen that man awakes
  • And what has happened in the spiritual evolution of humanity, in man's
  • nothing other than what happens every morning when we awake out of sleep
  • Now, we have seen that
  • comes into play, so that when we come up against the extended world
  • of the mind, a world into which there enters a creeping doubt, so that
  • seen that it is possible to guard against such a violation of this frontier
  • the phenomena themselves. We have also had to show that at this point
  • in our striving for knowledge something emerges that commends itself
  • to our use as an immediate necessity: mathematics and that part of mechanics
  • that can be comprehended without any empirical observation, i.e., the
  • us the system of concepts that allows us to enter into phenomena with
  • our souls, is entirely different from that employed when we experiment
  • What is the difference
  • those modes of apprehension that are not inward in this way by formulating
  • of forces. One theorem of analytical mechanics states that two angular
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture IV
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
  • calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
  • led us to conclude that at one boundary of cognition we must come to
  • a halt within phenomena and then permeate them with what the phenomena
  • It became apparent that the realm in which these ideas are most pure and
  • pellucid is that of mathematics and analytical mechanics.
  • then climaxed in showing how reflection reveals that everything present
  • the phenomena themselves and that his search for die archetypal phenomenon
  • that underlies complex phenomena is, inwardly, the same as the mathematician's
  • therefore, who himself admitted that he had no conventional mathematical
  • that he demanded a method for the determination of archetypal phenomena
  • rigorous enough to satisfy a mathematician. It is just this that the
  • Western wind finds so attractive in the Vedanta: that in its inner
  • That such connections are not uncovered by academic studier of the Vedanta
  • education. Those who engage in pursuits that then lead them into Oriental
  • grips with something that rests upon a firm foundation, that bears its
  • into our souls in the nebulous manner of certain mystics, what we attain
  • are actually nothing but certain reminiscences that have been stored
  • that the so-called “inner life” partakes of the nature of
  • front of a bookstore. In the store he saw a book that captured his attention
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture V
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
  • calls on us to develop the organs of perception that go beyond these
  • to come to terms with a number of things that actually can be understood
  • only if one is able to overcome certain prejudices that have long been
  • of what shall be said here today, and further substantiated tomorrow,
  • [Anschauung] of the spirit. You must consider that when the
  • know what mode of demonstration is demanded in these circles, and he
  • reason it is usually the case that when the demands of normal consciousness
  • the objections that can be raised. One could even go so far as to say
  • that he is only a spiritual scientist in the true sense of the word
  • — to the extent that he has subjected himself to the rigorous
  • demonstration that experimentation has made scientific habit, one shall
  • never attain knowledge that can benefit society. For in a scientific
  • experiment one proceeds — even if one cherishes the illusion that
  • it is otherwise — in such a way that one moves in a certain
  • direction and allows phenomena to confirm what lives within the ideas
  • the ideas that one has formulated as the natural laws of contemporary
  • translate them into a social science that can become truly practical,
  • and wait to see what one's ideas call forth when they are applied to
  • take regarding the two boundaries that arise within cognition —
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture VI
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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  • consideration of what reveals itself at one boundary of scientific thinking
  • enters through Inspiration a spiritual world: he knows that he is in
  • this world and feels also that he is outside the body. I have shown
  • pathological skepticism and hypercriticism that pathological conditions
  • We can either turn to what opens a free, spiritual vision of the highest
  • error to believe that one could guard against this illness by electing
  • against the pathological states that I described yesterday — even
  • What is it, however, that
  • You need only follow somewhat man's development from birth to the change
  • of teeth and beyond in Order to realize that, besides the development
  • memory is interrupted, so that we cannot recall certain experiences
  • we have had, then a serious illness befalls us, for we feel that the
  • the path I have characterized we must take care not to lose what manifests
  • the power of soul that provides us with memory.
  • it metamorphoses itself. Then one comes to realize that in the moment
  • extraordinary — something that, since I present it to your mind's
  • eye for the First time, might seem paradoxical, yet that is fully grounded
  • what reveals itself to him in the spiritual world — he must perform
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture VII
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  • If nothing is within the reach of scientific research except what is in
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  • It is to be hoped that
  • furnish at least some indications of the difference between what spiritual
  • acquired through the conventional education that carries us up to a
  • certain stage in life and whatever this education has enabled us to
  • that anthroposophically oriented spiritual science terms knowledge of
  • self-development; one must become aware that in the later stages of
  • Eastern sages spoke of such an enhanced consciousness that renders accessible
  • to man a level of reality higher than that of everyday life; they strove
  • by means of an inner self-cultivation that corresponded to their racial
  • characteristics and evolutionary stage. The meaning of what radiates
  • only when one realizes what such a higher level of development reveals
  • in that epoch humanity had a kind of natural propensity to Inspiration,
  • it clear from the start, however, that this path can no longer be that
  • actually desires to turn back the tide of human evolution or shows that
  • of will, and we initially substantiate what surges within the soul as
  • perceptions, that our consciousness First fully awakens.
  • that the Eastern sages, the so-called initiates of the East, cultivated
  • the following. In certain ages of life we develop what we call the soul-spirit
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• Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture VIII
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  • linking him with his fellow men. He chose a path different from that
  • attempted not to understand through the word what one's fellow
  • man wished to say, what one wants to understand from him, but to live
  • repeated them, so that the forces accrued in the soul by this process
  • was achieved in the condition of the soul that might be called a state
  • of Inspiration, in the sense in which I have used the word, except that
  • I have described to you. I said that those Westerners who desire to
  • have evolved, so that one cannot simply renew the ancient Eastern path
  • into the spiritual worlds is that of Imagination. This faculty of
  • would like to describe the path into the spiritual world that conforms
  • way that it applies for everybody, above all for those who have not
  • super-sensible that is much more for the scientist. All my experience
  • has taught me that for such a scientist a kind of precondition for this
  • cognitional striving is to take up what is presented in my book,
  • I will explain what I mean by this. This
  • that the reader learns the book's contents in accordance with his education,
  • only a kind of musical score that one must read with inner thought activity
  • of the reader. Moreover, the book presupposes that which the soul becomes
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