The Philosophy of Freedom
Intuitive Thinking As A Spiritual Path, Lipson translation
copyright © Anthroposophic Press, 1995.
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Intuitive Thinking As A Spiritual Path (original title Philosophy of Freedom)
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