Philosophical Speculations

Thanks for the further comments Ashvin. I thought I made it clear that I don't think Tucker's pamphlet exhausted everything Steiner thinks about advancing spiritual freedom. I was also using intuitively determined action in the sense that Steiner uses it, and disagree that PoF states that higher cog...

I'll respond to the points you raised later, but Steiner's letter to Mackay is at the bottom of the page linked in the OP, and can also be found at the RSarchive: https://wn.rsarchive.org/Articles/Anarcy_index.html#sthash.f3XNETIx.dpuf Justin, Thank you for providing that. The letter is great and i...

AshvinP wrote: I’m also not saying that I necessarily agree with Steiner’s anarchism. I am more interested in how it dovetails with what I discussed in the Bortoft thread about Bortoft's views on incommensurable but complementary ways of knowing reality. Can you state for us what these "incomm...

I'll respond to the points you raised later, but Steiner's letter to Mackay is at the bottom of the page linked in the OP, and can also be found at the RSarchive: https://wn.rsarchive.org/Articles/Anarc ... NETIx.dpuf

PoF has nothing to do with belief . Belief in the power of anarchism to harmonize human relations, as opposed to the power of capitalism to do so, is still belief nonetheless, and that always serves to limit the individual power to develop spiritual freedom, i.e. to free his thinking, feeling, and ...

Sure, but he also believes that 'one clears the way for the most independent people by doing away with all force and authority'. Hence, he (in 1898 at least) is against both external and internal authority Here we should make a clear distinction. The popular understanding of anarchism is as if huma...

Ashvin, Most of your last post is not relevant to the OP, so I'll just make a couple of comments (incidentally, I do think that the relation between Steiner's early and later work is a very important topic, but it is not within the scope of this thread): AshvinP wrote: You are claiming Steiner's PoF...

This thread is a spin-off from this one ( https://metakastrup.org/viewtopic.php?t=744 ). It is intended to be about the Steiner’s views on anarchism and his philosophy as presented in The Philosophy of Freedom . It is not concerned with Steiner’s views subsequent to his involvement with theosophy. D...

Oh well, each to their own. Steiner called PoF his most important book and wrote in the 1918 Preface that it was suitable for those with no interest in his spiritual researches . At the time he wrote PoF he was also identifying as an anarchist ( https://philosophyoffreedom.com/profiles/blog/the-ind...

Oh well, each to their own. Steiner called PoF his most important book and wrote in the 1918 Preface that it was suitable for those with no interest in his spiritual researches . At the time he wrote PoF he was also identifying as an anarchist ( https://philosophyoffreedom.com/profiles/blog/the-indi...