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The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity: (Cw 4)

The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity: (Cw 4)

Steiner, Rudolf
Lindeman, William

Paperback

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ISBN10: 0880101563
ISBN13: 9780880101561
Publisher: Steiner Books
Published: Jul 11 1994
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Written in 1894 (CW 4)

Materialism can never provide a satisfactory explanation of the world. For every attempt at an explanation must begin with one's forming thoughts for oneself about the phenomena of the world. Materialism therefore takes its start with the thought of matter or of material processes. Thus, it already has two different realms of facts before it: the material world and thoughts about it. It seeks to understand the latter by grasping them as a purely material process. It believes that thinking takes place in the brain in about the same way as digestion does in the animal organs. Just as it attributes to matter mechanical and organic effects, so it also ascribes to it the capability, under specific conditions, to think. It forgets that it has now only transferred the problem to another place. It attributes the capability of thinking not to itself but to matter. An in doing so, it is back again at its starting point.... The materialistic view is not able to solve the problem, but only to shift it. (pp. 18-19)

Of all of his works, The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity is the one that Steiner himself believed would have the longest life and the greatest spiritual and cultural consequences. It was written as a phenomenological account of the results of observing the human soul according to the methods of natural science.

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