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The Philosophy of Freedom (Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path)

Rudolf Steiner

Steiner's central philosophical work. Part one, 'The Science of Freedom', analyses the observation of thinking as the secure starting point of knowledge and the relation between percept and concept; part two, 'The Reality of Freedom', founds an 'ethical individualism': free action springs from a moral intuition loved for its own sake, guided by 'moral imagination'. Steiner reissued it in 1918 with additions and regarded it as the philosophical germ of anthroposophy.