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Living at the core of all of Rudolf Steiner's work is his Philosophy Of Freedom. Steiner asserts a unique humanist world-view that human morality, like human knowledge, is conditional upon human nature. A firm grounding in humanist thought can prevent one from turning Steiner's Anthroposophy into foggy spiritualism. Instead, one's life is empowered by deepening scientific inquiry and living according to one's own highest ideals. more...
Study Course includes 40 videos, 55 observation exercises, 380 educational comic strips, and 250 quiz questions and more.
This is the NEW course, it also uses flash. If you have the old "Part 1" course this one is better, covering all the chapters. (all quizzes have been put at the end of the NEW course allowing immediate access to each chapter's study material)
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How can you take a quiz at the end of each section of the study course if the quizzes are at the end of the course and there is no easy way to get to them except by scrolling page by page? -G
That is a problem. The scrolling is slow the first time through as the program makes you stop at each slide. After that, the scrolling is fast, as you will no longer have to stop at the slides. I had the quizzes at the end of each chapter in my first course attempt, but many people didn't want to take the quiz. So I put them at the back as an option.
Can it all come down to meditation as the way to freedom, in thinking being and living? -J
Rather than meditation, I would use the term thinking contemplation. The key to free action is having developed the capacity of moral intuition, which involves using the ability to think freely without preconceptions and bias (pure thinking) to select the moral principle to be applied in a particular case from your whole world of ideas. (see chapter 13.0 MORAL IMAGINATION) This can be tried just by sitting down and reflecting upon the ethics of a decision that needs to be made. This ability can be further developed so it can work more quickly in the moment you need an answer.
With this key element in mind you could say it comes down to thinking being and living.
POF 10.4 when all other grounds that determine action take second place, then we rely, in the first place, on conceptual intuition itself. All other motives now drop out of sight, and the ideal content of an action alone becomes its motive.
POF 10.5 For such an action to be possible, we must first be capable of moral intuitions. Whoever lacks the capacity to think out for himself the moral principles that apply in each particular case, will never rise to the level of genuine individual willing.
Is pure thinking when you meditate and think of nothing and everything is blank and still in your mind, not letting other thoughts come into your mind at that moment? -J
POF Chapter 4 THOUGHT AS THE INSTRUMENT OF KNOWLEDGE explains thinking and pure thinking.
The first step in thinking is focus --but focus upon something, which can be an object or a past thought.
POF 4.3 As long as I think about the object, I am absorbed in it, my attention is turned on it. To be thus absorbed in the object is to contemplate it by thought.
I am starting a new wordpress blog initiative "Ethical Individualism" at www.ethicalindividualism.com and twitter account "Ethical Humanism" to reach people beyond the anthroposophy thought collective and authoritarian Steiner with the concepts in The Philosophy Of Freedom. Leading concepts would be Moral Intuition, Moral Imagination, Moral Technique, Ethical Individualism, and Humanism. What we have in common is that we are human. The Philosophy Of Freedom, in its original impulse, is a celebration of simply being human, as such, has potentially wide appeal from atheists to religious, from individual to collective, and from thinker to doer.
This initiative is just at its beginning. If you have an interest and want to participate in forming it as a writer, researcher, wordpress blog tech experience, or in any other way want to enter the public discussion of a new Ethical Scientific Humanism, post a comment or use the contact form. -Tom
(POF 10-8) The moral laws which the metaphysician who works by mere inference must regard as issuing from a higher power, are, for the adherent of monism, thoughts of men.
