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Wise ones throughout history have given humanity a picture of the human ideal to strive for, such as religious saints like Jesus in the Gospels or Ayn Rand's selfish individualist. Rudolf Steiner presents to the world a new Human Ideal for our age, the Ethical Individualist. The Ethical Individualist stands at the highest point of human evolution. Part I of the book describes the FREE THINKING while Part II describes the FREE MORALITY of the Ethical Individualist. The human ideal unites these two sides.
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1. Conscious Human Action |
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Willing |
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14. The Individual |
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2. Why The Desire For |
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Feeling |
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13. The Value Of Life |
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3. Thought As The |
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Thinking |
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12. Moral Imagination |
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4. The World As Percept |
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Perception |
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11. World Purpose And Life Purpose |
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5. Our Knowledge Of The World |
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Conception |
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10. Monism And The Philosophy Of Freedom |
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6. Human Individuality |
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Idea |
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9. The Idea Of Freedom |
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7. Are There Any Limits To Knowledge? |
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Cognition |
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8. The Factors Of Life |
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How can we get along? HARMONY OF INTENTIONS A moral misunderstanding, a clash of aims, is impossible between those who are free. |
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Rudolf Steiner 1919 The man of modern times cannot live instinctively; he must live consciously. He needs a freedom that is real. He needs more than vague talk about freedom; more than the mere verbiage of freedom. He needs that freedom should actually grow into his immediate life and surroundings. This is only possible along roads that lead to ethical individualism. At the time when my book The Philosophy of Freedom appeared, Eduard von Hartmann wrote to me: “The book ought not to be called ‘The Philosophy of Freedom’ but ‘A Study in Phenomena connected with the Theory of Cognition, and an Ethical Individualism.’ ” For a title of course that would have been rather long-winded; but it would not have been bad to have called it “Ethical Individualism,” for ethical individualism is nothing but the personal realization of freedom. The best people were totally unable to perceive how the actual impulses of the age were calling for the thing that is discussed in that book. |
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The third view of the discussion of thinking in Chapter 3 is Realism, so the Realist is interested in "thinking observation" as the way to know the external world.
