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This is a discussion group about Rudolf Steiner's comments on his book The Philosophy of Freedom. It is also intended as a place to gather more references not found in Palmer's book. Please post references you find and we will do the research to determine if they are new to the existing archive.
Much has been written by students of spiritual science on The Philosophy of Freedom, but the advantage of discovering what the author himself had to say about this most important and seminal work should be obvious. Not only were the words of the text chosen most carefully, but also its very structure was intended to become a powerful inner experience for the careful reader. In a sense, all of the works that flowed from Rudolf Steiner in the following years were to elaborate on this great work.
Otto Palmer has provided an invaluable service by extracting numerous references from the words of Rudolf Steiner, providing keys to the deeper meanings behind the words of The Philosophy of Freedom, making it more accessible and meaningful to readers.
Contents:
How the Book Came To Be
The Book’s Aims and Artistic Composition
New Thinking
The Sphere of Freedom
New Willing
New Thinking, New Willing; The Thinking-Will
Transition to the Social Problem
The Socially Oriented Will
Forces at Work in the Contemporary Scene
The Book as a Training Manual
Confrontations
The Book’s Christian Substance
Epilogue, Notes, Partial Bibliography, Collateral Reading
Otto Palmer received his first copy of The Philosophy of Freedom in 1919 as a prisoner of war in France. While in prison, he began his forty-five-year journey of studying Rudolf Steiner’s works and Anthroposophy. By the time he published his book, Rudolf Steiner on His Book The Philosophy of Freedom, he had spent many years considering and collecting every reference to The Philosophy of Freedom that he could find in Rudolf Steiner’s works and lectures.
No other book Rudolf Steiner wrote was as often and exhaustively discussed by him as The Philosophy of Freedom. He not only refers to it, he points again and again and yet again, from every imaginable angle, to what he intended this work to accomplish---indeed, to initiate. This list does not pretend to be complete, however. It would have to include many further references to achieve the status of a true archive, but that task can be undertaken at leisure. Meanwhile, the listing in the appended table may be regarded as containing the most basic references.
Otto Palmer, introduction
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