Wise ones throughout history have given humanity a picture of the human ideal for us to strive toward. We are given examples of the perfect human such as religious saints, or Jesus in the Gospels or Ayn Rand's heroic individualist.
Rudolf Steiner presents to the world a new Human Ideal, the Ethical Individualist. The Ethical Individualist stands at the highest point of human evolution as one who acts according to one's own highest ethical ideals.
“Ethical individualism, then, is the crown of the edifice that Darwin and Haeckel have erected for Natural Science. It is the theory of evolution applied to the moral life.” TPOF Chapter 12.8
The Ethical Individualist is reality-based and acts out of knowledge as a free thinker. He freely selects the ethical principle to apply to each life situation without regard for what others would do.
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1. Conscious Human Action |
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14. The Individual |
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2. Why The Desire For |
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13. The Value Of Life |
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12. Moral Imagination |
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4. The World As Percept |
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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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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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