{"product_id":"anthroposophy-and-the-natural-sciences-book-rudolf-steiner-9781621481850","title":"Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 public lectures and an \u003cb\u003eevening \u003c\/b\u003ediscussion, various cities, \u003cbr\u003eJune 17, 1920 - May 11, 1922 (CW 75)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis previously untranslated volume in \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases Rudolf Steiner presenting the key concepts and methods of spiritual science to more or less skeptical academic audiences in the early 1920s. Step by step, he presented to his listeners the fundamentals of the anthroposophic path of knowledge. Steiner was less concerned with presenting results from his spiritual-scientific research than with leading his academic audience to an objective understanding of spiritual science in a propaedeutic, conceptually transparent way. The central questions of his approach were: \u003c\/p\u003eWhat are the tools and instruments required to orient oneself in the world of the soul and the spirit? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow can we know that the spiritual world is an objective world and not merely a psychic projection? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat authorizes the spiritual researcher to acknowledge what he has experienced \"on the other side\" as a reality that is independent of him?\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner addresses these and other questions in such a structured and readily comprehensible way that the volume as a whole is well suited, both as an introductory text and as a means for anyone to deepen their understanding of how anthroposophy relates to and builds upon the natural sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the time these presentations were given, serious voices had been raised denying Steiner's scientific credibility and denouncing his methods as unsound. Partly in response to such criticisms, Steiner here describes a means by which human beings can gain, through methodical and rigorous training, a direct experience of the spiritual dimension of life. He lays out the methodology of spiritual science, which is rooted in the scientific approach, outlining the three stages of higher knowledge--imagination, inspiration, and intuition--and describing the inner processes that lead from intellectual thinking to these higher modes of cognition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUltimately, what Steiner proposes is not a deviation from the natural sciences but their expansion and development beyond unnecessary boundaries--that is, the establishment of anthroposophical spiritual science as a recognized method and practice of scientific research. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003eDas Verhältnis der Anthroposophie zur Naturwissenschaft, \u003c\/i\u003e 1st edition (GA 75, Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach, Switzerland, 2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741530890513,"sku":"NGR9781621481850","price":38.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1621481859.jpg?v=1750720973","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/anthroposophy-and-the-natural-sciences-book-rudolf-steiner-9781621481850","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}