The philosophy of spiritual activity: Fundamentals of a modern view of the world : results of introspective observations according to the method of natural science

This is a landmark book. Not only in the field of philosophy but in man's own evolutionary physical, psychic and spiritual development. By using the same exacting, precise methods of observation, thing experience and reason, the tools so grandly developed by Western Man over the past 2500 years in respect to nature and culminating n the scientific method, Steiner creates the basis for a philosophy and science of Man himself, as well as a science of the spirit. He clearly points out how each of us can make the gigantic leap of transforming these very methods and tools into the means for man to free himself of the limits he has so far placed on himself. This book is not limited to a reexamination of the fundamental questions concerning Thinking, Free Will, Love and Morality, nor the logical beauty and organic unfolding of the psychic process of man's remembering and experiencing activities, nor the responsibilities and consequences of the application of the spiritual activity of freedom, but moves beyond these various human experiences. Steiner points to man's own means of becoming aware of the very force in man that makes these soul and spiritual experiences consciously understood and manifest in practice. That power is the reality of a self-conscious Self that is the essence of the human being, and further, it is a Self that can become conscious of itself out of its own spiritual activity. Man is a free being, capable of performing free deeds because he is a spiritual being at the core. That is why this is a truly unique book: it places the free, self-conscious, human spirit at the very center of all human activities.