"Ethical individualism is the crowning feature of that edifice which Darwin and Haeckel have striven to build for natural science.

Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom was written around 1893 as part of his project to reconcile an innate and developing clairvoyant capacity with the Kantian philosophy dominating German thou

The life of Rights is the Middle Sphere of the Threefold Social Organism. It's the section that regulates the tendencies that come from the other two spheres.

Without tolerance, a healthy diversity in conversation cannot be expected to develop. Diversity is needed for social strength and the overall effectiveness of any social organization.

Plato (427-347 B.C.E.) is the ancient writer "to whom all of Western philosophy is merely a footnote" (Whitehead).

In a real Goethean conversation, where people are treating the occasion simultaneously as an artistic performance and as an exercise of the understanding, the field phenomenon that arises depe

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is known for his contributions to philosophical logic and the interpretation of truth tables, and for the use theory of linguistic meaning.

Generally one attends a Goethean conversation only if one is prepared to do so. Preparation is of two sorts: long-term and short-term.

The economic life is made up of promises and actions. Contracts are promises; money is a promise.

Of the five types of speech act possible for a human being to make, the commissive is most fundamental to the social contract, and to the idea of conversation.