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The Tension Between East and West: (Cw 83) Volume 83

The Tension Between East and West: (Cw 83) Volume 83

Steiner, Rudolf
Steiner-Von Sivers, Marie
Rowley, B. A.

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Series: Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner, Book 83

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1621483274
ISBN13: 9781621483274
Publisher: Steiner Books
Published: Feb 6 2024
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

10 lectures at the Second International Congress of
the Anthroposophical Movement, Vienna, June 1-12, 1922 (CW 83)

In ordinary consciousness, we combine our thoughts logically and thus make use of thinking to know the external sensory world. Now, however, we allow thinking to enter into a kind of musical element, but one that is undoubtedly a knowledge element; we become aware of a spiritual rhythm underlying all things; we penetrate into the world by beginning to perceive it in the spirit. From abstract, dead thinking, from mere image-thinking, our thinking becomes a thinking enlivened in itself. This is the significant transition that can be made from abstract and merely logical thinking to a living thinking about which we have the feeling it is capable of shaping a reality, just as we recognize our process of growth as a living reality. -- Rudolf Steiner

This demanding set of lectures attempts to lift the veil from modern social and spiritual problems as experienced in the contrasts between East and West. By ascribing only vague and subjective validity to human thinking, modern science tries to invalidate the very faculty that gives us our human dignity. However, such unreality of thought images makes possible the inner freedom that scientific doctrine tends to deny in principle. The need arises from these contradictions to extend the limits of ordinary scientific thinking toward new investigative capacities.

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