Name: Dying Earth and Living Cosmos: The Living Gifts of Anthroposophy: The Need for New Forms of Consciousness (Cw 181) (in English)
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Barton, Matthew ; Barton, Matthew
ISBN: 9781855844193

portada Dying Earth and Living Cosmos: The Living Gifts of Anthroposophy: The Need for New Forms of Consciousness (Cw 181) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.0 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9781855844193

Synopsis "Dying Earth and Living Cosmos: The Living Gifts of Anthroposophy: The Need for New Forms of Consciousness (Cw 181) (in English)"

21 lectures, Berlin, January 22 - August 6, 1918 (CW 181)These authoritative lectures, delivered during a period of deep crisis and conflict in world history, present a comprehensive spiritual teaching for contemporary humanity. Despite the raging World War, Rudolf Steiner was still touring Central Europe while also completing his architectural masterpiece in neutral Switzerland, the first Goetheanum.The building of the Goetheanum--built by a community of people from seventeen nations at war--forms a thematic backdrop to the lectures. In speaking of the walls of the new building, for example, Steiner describes how their forms do not confine but express openness to the surrounding cosmos. Similarly, the carved motifs on the wooden pillar architraves are not fixed "symbols," but are alive and continually metamorphosing.These observations are reflected in Steiner's broader discussions. He speaks of extending and deepening our connection with the world and the cosmos, going beyond our usual narrow limits and definitions to engage in "community with the realities of existence." We can do this, for example, with the so-called dead, who find it difficult to relate to sensory-bound thinking. Steiner explains how we can connect with them and greatly enrich our lives and "making an enormous difference to their souls." The distinction between fixed symbols and living motifs takes us to the core of Anthroposophy, striving never to rest in inert forms of thought. In the field of education, Steiner thus warns about the "external measuring" of students and linear models of cognitive learning.Throughout the three lecture courses included here that combine to form a kind of compendium of Anthroposophy at the time, Steiner touches on a wealth of absorbing themes, including the "discovery" of America, the contrast between East and West, the qualities of European "folk souls," Valentin Andreae's Chymical Wedding, and Darwinism.Regardless of his topic, Steiner consistently and urgently appeals to us to "grasp reality" and look further than abstract schemes such as social and political 'program' and to participate in the cosmos as conscious, fully human co-creators.This volume is a translation from German of Erdensterben und Weltenleben. Anthroposophische Lebensgaben. Bewu tseins-Notwendigkeiten für Gegenwart und Zukunft (GA 181)

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Imperio austrohúngaro, hoy Croacia, 25 o 27 de febrero de 18611-Dornach, Suiza, 30 de marzo de 1925) fue un filósofo austriaco, erudito literario, educador, artista, autor teatral, pensador social y ocultista. Fue el fundador de la antroposofía, la educación Waldorf, la agricultura biodinámica, la medicina antroposófica5 y de la nueva forma artística de la euritmia.

Describió la antroposofía como sigue: La antroposofía es un sendero de conocimiento que quisiera conducir lo espiritual en el hombre a lo espiritual en el universo. Pueden ser antropósofos quienes sienten determinadas cuestiones sobre la esencia del hombre y del mundo como una necesidad tan vital como la que se siente cuando tenemos hambre y sed.

Steiner propuso una forma de individualismo ético, al que luego añadió un componente más explícitamente espiritual. Derivó su epistemología de la visión del mundo de Johann Wolfgang Goethe, según la cual el pensamiento es un órgano de percepción al igual que el ojo o el oído. Del mismo modo que el ojo percibe colores y el oído sonidos, así el pensamiento percibe ideas.

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