- Investigating Thinking – Cognition – Knowledge in the context of the 1884 preface to the Philosophy of Freedom
Introduction Toward the Forest Out of the Forest The Preface Plato Alfred North Whitehead Next time Introduction In my first ever reading of the Philosophy of Freedom 30 years… Read more: Investigating Thinking – Cognition – Knowledge in the context of the 1884 preface to the Philosophy of Freedom - Finding the etheric in The Philosophy of Freedom
Introduction Mankind’s fascination with what life is and how death can be overcome are questions that seem central to the riddle of man. This eternal question acquires an interesting… Read more: Finding the etheric in The Philosophy of Freedom - Steiner and Aurobindo on Learned Ignorance
Contents Introduction I want to draw together some threads from Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo, Goethe and Nicholas of Cusa. These threads seem significant and consequently I feel compelled to… Read more: Steiner and Aurobindo on Learned Ignorance - Finding the Trinity in Aurobindo’s “Life Divine” and Steiner’s “Truth and Science”
Intro Jeff, Kate and I are currently doing a series looking at Rudolf Steiner’s GA 3 Truth and Science on our YT channel, A prologue to the Philosophy of… Read more: Finding the Trinity in Aurobindo’s “Life Divine” and Steiner’s “Truth and Science” - The Destiny of the Individual & Ethical Individualism
Mankind as a Bridge The Destiny of the Individual (The Life Divine , Aurobindo, ch5) & Moral Imagination (Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner, ch12) In this article I want… Read more: The Destiny of the Individual & Ethical Individualism - Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo and a Theory of Knowledge
Introduction Several years ago I stumbled across Sri Aurobindo’s concept of the Supermind and evolution of consciousness. At the time I was impressed by how closely these ideas… Read more: Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo and a Theory of Knowledge
But as object of observation, thinking differs essentially from all other things. The observation of a table or of a tree occurs for me as soon as these objects arise on the horizon of my experiences. My thinking about these objects, however, I do not observe at the same time. I observe the table, I carry out my thinking about the table, but I do not observe my thinking at the same moment. I must first transfer myself to a standpoint outside of my own activity, if I want, besides the table, to observe also my thinking about the table. Whereas the observing of objects and occurrences, and the thinking about them, are the entirely commonplace state of affairs with which my going life is filled, the observation of thinking is a kind of exceptional state. This fact must be properly considered when it is a matter of determining the relationship of thinking to all other contents of observation. One must be clear about the fact that in the observation of thinking one is applying to it a way of doing things which constitutes the normal condition for the consideration of all other world content, but which, in the course of this normal state of affairs, does not take place with respect to thinking itself.
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