GA 191

Social Understanding from Spiritual Scientific Knowledge. The Spiritual Background of the Social Question, Volume III

Fifteen lectures, Dornach 3 October to 15 November 1919.

Contents (selection)

Threefold movement and anthroposophy / Three periods of youthful development / The concepts of commodity, labour, capital / The forces of decline in our civilisation / The predispositions of peoples / Materialistic conception of history / Sense knowledge, moral knowledge and knowledge of nature / Ego-perception and social coexistence. Understanding of the destiny of the individual human being / The expansion of consciousness to the pre-natal and the after-death / The establishment of the balance between Luciferic and Ahrimanic power by man / The three sides of earthly cultural life / Luciferic and Ahrimanic thinking.

Literature

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Soziales Verständnis aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis, GA 191 (1989), ISBN 3-7274-1910-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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