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  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Forword
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    • that such a renewal requires a renewal of our thinking (one must remember
    • Scholasticism. Scholastic thinking had made its way to the limits of
    • revolts when lucid science tries to “think” Man as it thinks
    • conceptual thinking that we become fully human. Spiritual development
    • the view that pure thinking does not exist, but is bound to contain
    • of thought are directed by spiritual powers. Pure thinking leads to
    • tells us explicitly that out of sense-free thinking “there can flow
    • actually observing how moral forces flow into sense-free thinking.”
    • Contemporary thinkers
    • think that there
    • as a thinker he strikes a note of regret and even condolence. “It
    • “primitive reasoning.” He too is a modern thinker. What
    • so that we allow them to work upon us without thinking about them, but
    • thinking we interweave percepts and concepts entirely systematically,
    • inner activity that one can exclude and suppress conceptual thinking from
    • allow Steiner to speak for himself, for he is more than a thinker, he
    • The human mind, he tells us, must learn to will pure thinking, but it
    • must learn also how to set conceptual thinking aside and to live within
    • think of social renewal until we have considered these questions. What
  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture I
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    • circles that social renewal must begin with a renewal of our thinking.
    • modern thought? It was the conceptions, the new mode of thinking that had
    • consider the method according to which one thinks in scientific circles
    • and how others have been influenced in their thinking by those circles?
    • all of man's thinking, all of his notional activity, was determined
    • renewed from an entirely different side by thinkers and researchers such
    • mode of thinking, had set a limit to knowledge at the super-sensible,
    • so these thinkers and researchers set a limit at the sensible. The limit
    • that when contemplating nature we are forced, in thinking systematically,
    • so impotent in our thinking about social questions. Many today still
    • through the interaction of the senses and thinking with the outer world.
    • time most desiccated and lifeless thinking: the concept of matter. And
    • of man in my thinking, in my explanations, in my comprehension.
  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture II
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    • from modern scientific theories that can become a vital social thinking
    • 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
    • thought-forms. Hegel raised humanity into ethereal heights of thinking,
    • how can we find a mode of thinking that can be useful in social life?
    • pleases Him, that which He commands. Why, thinks Max Stirner, should
    • clarity: one feels that, applied to social thinking, this clarity makes
    • can we achieve the clear conceptual thinking we need to become fully
    • thinking and perspicuity of mental representation can be won by man
    • thinking becomes useless the moment we strive scientifically for something
    • phenomena but to think on beyond them. We are doing this if we do more
    • behind it atoms and the like I cannot bring my lucid thinking to a halt
    • to doubt when I notice that my thinking has only been borne along by
    • a halt. One wants to think ever farther and farther beyond and construct
    • this web one has woven in a world created by the inertia of thinking
    • this law of inertia. He did not want to roll onward thus with his thinking
    • phenomena and if we strive with our thinking to come to a halt there
    • this very day philosophical thinking has failed in the most extraordinary
    • Such thinkers forget but
  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture III
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    • If we are able by means of energetic thinking to differentiate sharply
    • learned to investigate and think in the laboratories according to the
    • not only to think in mathematical concepts but to view that which exists
  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture IV
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    • easily be demonstrated empirically. One need think only of a certain
    • At first he could think of nothing. And then it occurred to him: I shall
    • that Goethe was no trivial thinker, nor trivial in his feelings when
    • lead down into the depths of consciousness itself, about thinking elaborated
    • thought about thinking. One must understand what Goethe meant by this,
    • for one cannot actually think about thinking. One cannot actually think
    • thinking any more than one can “iron” iron or “wood”
    • the paths that are opened up in thinking when it becomes more and more
    • of mathematical thinking. If one does this, one enters via a natural
    • of Freedom. What one attains in this way is not a thinking about thinking.
    • One can speak of thinking about thinking in a metaphorical sense at
    • actual viewing [Anschauen] of thinking, but to arrive at this
    • “viewing of thinking,” it is necessary first to have acquired
    • a concrete notion of the nature of sense-free thinking. One must have
    • progressed so far in the inner work of thinking that one attains a state
    • of consciousness in which one recognizes one's thinking to be sense-free
    • merely by grasping that thinking, by “viewing” it as such.
    • first to make thinking sense-free and then to present this thinking
    • thinking as a simple fact, yet nevertheless a fact capable of rigorous
    • “sense-free thinking” has no basis in any kind of reality.
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    • boundary of the material world one must not allow one's thinking to
    • roll on with its own inertia, attempting to carry the kind of thinking
    • for the manner in which modern scientific thinking proceeds. They experience
    • how so excellent a thinker as Erwin Rohde could have believed a compromise
    • develop a thinking that can grasp the realities of social life. Similar
  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture VI
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    • consideration of what reveals itself at one boundary of scientific thinking
    • of speech, thinking, and so forth, an especially important element in
    • can only in mathematical, geometrical, analytic-mechanical thinking. When
    • It is this symbolism, this allegorization, this thinking about external
    • thinking into pictorial thinking. Then there arises what I can only
    • call an experiential thinking [erlebendes Denken]. One experiences
    • pictorial thinking. Why does one experience this? One experiences nothing
    • way so different from that which nebulous mystics believe, who think
    • they are able to feel and think concerning the function, the meaning
  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture VII
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    • perception, thinking, feeling, and willing in a way different from their
    • awareness of another's ego. I think that a friend or associate of Husserl's
    • with pure thinking, with clear, keen thinking, so that finally one has
    • thinking of which I have become capable. One can experience just this
    • This book is actually a modest attempt to win through to pure thinking,
    • the pure thinking in which the ego can live and maintain a firm footing.
    • Then, when pure thinking has been grasped in this way, one can strive
    • for something else. This thinking, left in the power of an ego that
    • content remains, so to speak, hovering above. We exclude thinking inasmuch
    • a result of a kind of detour around thinking. We steep ourselves in
    • research concerning human physiology, thinking must be excluded and
    • for a human being not only to think materialistically but to be
    • of pure thinking he has attained. If one descends into the body with
  • Title: Boundaries of Natural Science: Lecture VIII
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    • engage his thinking activity on every page.
    • through this book with his own inner thinking activity and cannot confess
    • of one's usual thinking [Vorstellen] into a thinking independent
    • of the inner thought activity I myself have expended, what pure thinking
    • the view that pure thinking does not exist but is bound to contain traces,
    • of mathematical thinking. The pursuit of philosophy is actually impossible
    • without a grasp of at least the spirit of mathematical thinking. We
    • thinking, even though he made no claim himself to any special training
    • work. Just think what a disservice would have been accorded anthroposophically
    • without thinking about them but still perceiving them. In ordinary waking
    • with concepts; in scientific thinking we interweave percepts and concepts
    • By having acquired the capacity for the kind of thinking that gradually
    • thinking from the process of perception and surrender oneself to bare
    • part, our thinking regarding
    • philosophy of freedom in pure thinking has, as a result of our having
    • thinking have been transformed into substantial forces that are alive
    • We have developed Imagination, and pure thinking has become Inspiration.
    • one hand, what we have obtained as Inspiration from pure thinking —
    • the life that at a lower level is thinking, and then becomes a thinking
    • thinking, thinking and willing coincide. Pure thinking is fundamentally
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