The Philosophy of FreedomIntuitive Thinking As A Spiritual Path, Lipson translation copyright © Anthroposophic Press, 1995. Buy book at SteinerBooks Audio by Dale Brunsvold |
CONTENTS
Translator’s Introduction vii
Introduction by Gertrude Reif Hughes xiii
Preface to the Revised Edition, 1918
PART I : THEORY
The Knowledge of Freedom
1. Conscious Human Action 5
2. The Fundamental Urge for Knowledge 18
3. Thinking in the Service of Understanding
the World 27
4. The World as Percept 49
5. Knowing the World 73
6. Human Individuality 97
7. Are There Limits to Cognition? 104
PART II : PRACTICE
The Reality of Freedom
8. The Factors of Life 127
9. The Idea of Freedom 135
10. Freedom-Philosophy and Monism 163
11. World Purpose and Life Purpose
(Human Destiny) 173
12. Moral Imagination
(Darwinism and Ethics) 180
13. The Value of Life
(Pessimism and Optimism) 194
14. Individuality and Genus 225
FINAL QUESTIONS
The Consequences of Monism 231
Appendix 1 & Appendix 2 (1918)
Bibliography 259
Index 263

The Philosophy of Freedom