Inner Aspect of the Social Question (Lectures Section)

Rudolf Steiner suggested new ways to organize society and engage with social questions. This book presents his esoteric perspective on such concerns. Steiner asserts that we must begin by giving real value to the human element in the world, finding a deeper understanding of our relationship to nature and to the cosmos. Accordingly, it is ineffective to organize society in an arbitrary way; society ought to reflect the human relationship to the spiritual world. Steiner goes on to discuss the threefold archetype of social life — the political state, the economy, and the spiritual and cultural aspects — and how these three areas can interact in a healthy way, leading to an evolving society that is vibrant.
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The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethes World Conception (Books Section)

In the Books Section of the Rudolf Steiner Archive: The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethes World Conception, by Rudolf Steiner.
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The Bridge Between Universal Spirituality and the Physical Constitution of Man (Lectures Section)

A study of the nature of the human being, this small book shows that the moral world-order, though denied by the natural sciences, is the source for all world-creative power. Three lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in December of 1920, they are from the lecture series entitled, The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality and the Physical Constitution of Humans, published in German as, Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des Menschen. Die Suche Nach der Neuen Isis, der Goettlichen Sophia. Der Mensch in seinem Zusammenhang mit dem Kosmos. Printed in Manuscript for the members of the School of Spiritual Science, Goetheanum, Dornach. No person is held qualified to form a judgment on the contents of these works who has not acquired — through the School itself or in an equivalent manner recognized by the School — the requisite preliminary knowledge. Other opinions will be in so far disregarded as the authors of the works in question are not willing to take them as a basis for discussion.
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The Art of Lecturing (Lectures Section)

The six lectures presented here were given in Dornach, Switzerland from the 11th to the 16th of October, 1921. These lectures formed the Swiss Orientation Course, also known as the Speakers’ Course. In the Collected Edition of Rudolf Steiner’s works, t… Continue reading