Rudolf Steiner Archive
The Philosophy of Freedom
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English translations of this book from 1922 to 1963 were published with the title The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity. This is a revised translation of Steiner's groundbreaking philosophical work on the nature of freedom and thinking. The Philosophy of Freedom demonstrates the fact of freedom — the ability to think and act independently — as a possibility for modern consciousness. Read properly, it leads the reader to the experience of presence or living thinking — new thinking — by which all human activity may be renewed. This offering is a translation This is the seventh English edition, translated from the German, and with an Introduction by Michael Wilson.
- Introduction
- Author's Prefaces: Preface to the revised edition of 1918
- Author's Prefaces: Preface to the first edition, 1894
- Knowledge of Freedom
- The Reality of Freedom
- The Factors of Life
- The Idea of Freedom
- Freedom — Philosophy and Monism
- World Purpose and Life Purpose
- Moral Imagination
- The Value of Life
- Individuality and Species
- Ultimate Questions
- Appendix Added to the New Edition, 1918
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