The Liberation of the Human Being as the Basis for a Social Reorganization
GA 329
In February 1919, Rudolf Steiner began to publicize the threefold social order by collecting signatures for the appeal “To the German People and to the Cultural World” and publishing it. In the same month, he gave the lectures in Zurich that formed the basis for the fundamental work The Core Points of the Social Question in the Necessities of Present and Future Life. These lectures are published in the volume The Social Question, GA 328, in the Complete Works. The lectures from March and April printed in the present volume continue this lecture activity within Switzerland. On April 20, Rudolf Steiner went to Stuttgart and remained there — with short interruptions due to lecture tours to Tübingen, Berlin and Dornach — until the end of September. In Stuttgart, he developed a comprehensive public activity in order to bring about a fundamental transformation of public social life in the sense of threefolding. On April 22, the “Association for the Threefolding of the Social Organism” was founded, and the establishment of cultural and works councils was initiated in numerous discussions. At the same time, Rudolf Steiner and Emil Molt, director of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart, prepared the founding of the Waldorf School, which opened on September 7, 1919. In view of the forthcoming peace negotiations in Versailles, Rudolf Steiner attempted to make the background leading up to the outbreak of the First World War accessible to a wider public in connection with the publication of the memoirs of the German Chief of Staff, H. von Moltke.
| I. | The Real Foundations of a League of Nations in the Economic, Legal and Spiritual Forces of Peoples | March 11, 1919 |
| II. | What is the Purpose of the Modern Proletarian's Work? | March 17, 1919 |
| III. | Proletarian Demands and Their Future Practical Realization | March 19, 1919 |
| IV. | Proletarian Demands and Their Future Practical Realization | April 2, 1919 |
| V. | The Social Will and Proletarian Demands | April 9, 1919 |
| VI. | The Spiritual Foundation of the Social Question | October 14, 1919 |
| VII. | Spiritual Science (Anthroposophy) and the Conditions of Culture in the Present and Future | October 20, 1919 |
| VIII. | The Spirit as a Guide Through the Senses and into the Super Sensible World | November 6, 1919 |
| IX. | The Spirit as a Guide Through the Senses and into the Super Sensible World | November 10, 1919 |