Steiner is an amazing thinker and founder of so many things including the Waldorf/Steiner schools movement.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #342665 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01-31
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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Customer Reviews

Ever wondered how you KNOW anything?
Perhaps one of the most significant questions you can ask in your life: How can I know anything? How can I feel sure that what I hold as the basis for reality has any reality at all? These and other significant life questions are worked through in this remarkable philosophical work. Be prepared to do your own work as you follow the intuitive path that has been carefully outlined by Rudolf Steiner. The careful reader will find few books more deeply satisfying. I have returned to re-read it many times.

Freedom in simple words
This is the book about freedom that explaining things in a very simple way.
Of course talking about freedom is not simple at all, but the way this book is presented really cover a big gap between explanation and practise.
This book makes a lot of Sense! It is something I was looking for since a long time, and since I have started it i couldn't stop one day till the end. Of course it uses some specific terms to describe specific concepts, but this concepts are the most common in all human experience, therefore relating to a big extent of people.

Rereading it I can discover different layers of understanding and nearly everyday I get a new insight on the deeper meaning of many passages for which before I only had a basic understanding.

I admit some years ago I wouldn't have understood it at all, anyway deepening its content with other works from Steiner would help a lot. For sure it is not a bible or something covering everything AtoZ, but its principle tend to go before anything else.

Eventhough it was written around the 1900, its concepts are still very modern, in the sense that it highlights bad lines of thought many of which can still be found today for sale(even as modern and very successful to the public eye)that Steiner consider as deceiving in our search for understanding and truth.
For sure this book will help you screen out a big part of unuseful philosophies you may encounter in your research.

Steiner is maybe the first author I have met who has reviewed and integrated his books even many years after he first release them, showing great responsibility towards knowledge.

Too concerned with abstract theories
This book concentrates on philosophical comtemplation of thinking. The author wanted to discourage passive collecting of information and to encourage instead conscious pondering and questioning. The only kind of knowing that should satisfy us should spring from within. The unfree always strive to obey the outer world (like church, state or society) while free human beings set their own values themselves.

I appreciate thinking, but in my opinion this book was too concerned only with theories rather than practical matters. It was stated somewhere that the purpose of this book was to lay the foundations on which the author's later spiritual research could rest - but one can certainly skip this "primer." -Personally, I didn't like this book at all.