How to study ⁽¹⁰⁾

We come to the point in the book where we are ready to ask ourselves: how does the object of observation which meets thinking enter into our consciousness at all? (Ch.4 p.42) What obscures the answer to this question is the fact that any 'world…

"There is no one, unique method for studying" Aristotle As Aristotle points out, there is no one method for study, yet it is important to be aware that The Philosophy of Freedom isn't meant to be read in an ‘ordinary way’: with intellectual thought alone,…

Walking the thinking-path, making the thinking-pilgrimage A dedicated study of the Philosophy of Freedom, working through and thinking out the unfolding of ideas in the right order, can be imagined as walking a thinking-path, step by step. The path laid out by Steiner leads us.

Composer, musician, ensemble... "...a person holds the same relationship to this book that a virtuoso, in playing a selection on the piano, holds to the composer of the piece, that is, she reproduces the whole thing within herself — naturally according to her ability to…

Rudolf Steiner talked about his book the Philosophy of Freedom, and how to study it, in this example he speaks of an imagined reader who has “…gone through and inwardly experienced all that is in my book, The Philosophy of Freedom, and feels that this…