Philosophical Speculations

It is my sense that the rational intellect at large, i.e., as the intellectual soul has generally evolved in the modern age, and the materialist-reductionist intellect, are practically identical in terms of their characteristic tendencies. Put another way , the materialism-reductionism is not so ...

Thanks for your reply, Ashvin. I will come back to it a little further on.

When I say that the intellect can be logically compelled by Steiner’s illustrations I mean logically engaged. I don’t mean that logic becomes a compulsion. I was referring to the particular engagement of rationality and logic that Steiner endeavored to stimulate in the student (as I tried to evoke wi ...

Ashvin, the kind of scenario you have constructed has little to do with what we have discussed so far, from my perspective. Surely, you are right: if the average person randomly opens the ‘newspaper’, reads the news of Levin’s cancer treatment (let’s imagine he’ll develop one) then on the next page s ...

The “seeing is believing” was part of a description of what Steiner implied at various occasions speaking of "rational medicine", not my recommendation for a pedagogical approach to Anthroposophy. And I disagree with your very strong point not in the sense that I consider seeing is believing a path i ...

Perhaps you should simply stop trying to fix me, especially with remedies such as this: "Another angle is to consider Levin's research that you have summarized recently, and which, I don't think anyone can doubt, has led and will continue to lead to enormously practical results. As we know, Levin ...

Perhaps you should simply stop trying to fix me, especially with remedies such as this: "Another angle is to consider Levin's research that you have summarized recently, and which, I don't think anyone can doubt, has led and will continue to lead to enormously practical results. As we know, Levin ...

I don't agree that your interpretation is what he said, and this has happened a few times already with various quotes from Steiner, so that's why I continue to discuss it. That this interpretation is also at odds with what I have discerned from living experience re: default intellectual tendencies ...

Now, it is of course up to you to decide that these are "bad translations" or "simply overestimations" by Steiner. As I said, there is not much I can add here. If you don't agree with what he said, well, ask him, or just consider that these are overestimations. I don't agree that your ...

Thanks Federica, nice summary. I still think that ML, at least out of the popular faces of the day that I'm familiar with, who expose themselves on YT, is closest to the viable direction in which the intellect can become coaxial with the flow of existence. And as we have spoken before, it really ...