Philosophical Speculations

The overarching intuition that elucidates the disparate things is only gradually developed as the seemingly isolated concepts and inner flow patterns begin to be grasped from within a more stable perspective that coheres them, just like the intuition of a fern leaf coheres the dot perceptions above ...

You are being nothing less than dishonest with your reply, therefore I will not bother commenting until you correct it yourself. Let's see if you will ever be able to do it.

It would be nice, Ashvin, if you could mind resisting decorating your posts with the usual deformations some time. In the meantime, Steiner's wish, which you have called a selective snippet, gets only clearer in the larger context of the full lecture, lecture cycle, and entire corpus of Steiner ...

The one you indicate is definitely one angle of the question - among plethora of other angles. Another one angle would be the cat question for example. But you shall not go around twisting people's arms to make them do what you have decided they should do, because that's what you would do. Please ...

On the theme of bridging anthroposophical understanding for the benefit of the intellect, I'm just pinpointing this Steiner quote for later - from GA 128/3: "it would nevertheless be extraordinarily interesting, since not everybody is capable of becoming clairvoyant, if such facts could be accepted ...

What would be a suitable starting point for a philosophy? A point without presuppositions? The structure of language? The faculty of cognition? Philosophy is constantly in search of such points, consciously or unconsciously. Descartes’ foundational point in the subject, which doubts the world and f ...

I don’t see how Steiner leads to an insight (phenomenologically) that our thinking is conceptualized through other conscious perspectives (spiritual beings). Güney, When you speak of phenomenological insights, do you refer to insights to be arrived at only with reasoning - with the intellect - or do ...

In the spirit of “saving the materialist” and under the impression of various lecture cycles, I have recently thought about the following question: couldn’t (earthly) thinking be initially presented as (in principle quantifiable) energy - in line with the definition of energy in physics? Perhaps the ...

As we can see, at least a year ago, all of this remained specific to your perspective and circumstances, and not only how some hypothetical materialists would have to deal with the spiritual path. Ashvin, by the way, this is one example - among many others in this thread, but I'll let this suffice ...

Yes, Cleric, thanks. In other words, the first is what I have referred to as a bridge. The second is about learning (or teaching, guiding through,...) the real, direct practice of introspection - its phenomenology. For my part I have just been calling the latter a path, rather than a bridge: as you ...