{"product_id":"goethes-theory-of-knowledge-rudolf-steiner-9780880106238","title":"Goethe's Theory of Knowledge: An Outline of the Epistemology of His Worldview (Cw 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWritten 1884-1885; first published 1886 (CW 2)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Goethe's Theory of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e was Steiner's first book. It is a remarkable performance, communicating the white heat, passion, and intensity of thinking that only youth's vitality can summon. 'One can write in such a seminal way only at the beginning of one's path of knowledge, ' as he says. Reintroducing it forty years later, he could say with confidence that 'as a theory of knowledge it seems to form the justification for everything I have said and published since then.' In other words, by means of the path of thinking laid down here, Steiner began the process of breaking the ground in which the seeds of spiritual science, which he would be called upon to inaugurate, could germinate.\" -- \u003cb\u003eChristopher Bamford\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction)\u003cp\u003eAs the editor of Goethe's scientific writings during the 1880s, Rudolf Steiner became immersed in a worldview that paralleled and amplified his own views in relation to epistemology, the interface between science and philosophy, the theory of how we know the world and ourselves. At the time, like much of the thinking today and the foundation of modern natural science, the predominant theories held that individual knowledge is limited to thinking that reflects objective, sensory perception. Steiner's view was eventually distilled in his \u003ci\u003eAnthroposophical Leading Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e in 1924: \"There are those who believe that, with the limits of knowledge derived from sensory perception, the limits of all insight are given. Yet if they would carefully observe how they become conscious of these limits, they would find in the very consciousness of the limits the faculties to transcend them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this concise volume, Steiner lays out his argument for this view and, moreover, begins his explication of how one goes beyond thinking to the observation of thinking itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoethe's Theory of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for a deeper understanding of Rudolf Steiner's seminal work, \u003ci\u003eIntuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a translation from the German of \u003ci\u003eGrundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung, mit besonderer R?ksicht auf Schiller\u003c\/i\u003e (GA 2). Previous translations were published as \u003ci\u003eThe Science of Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) and \u003ci\u003eThe Theory of Knowledge implicit in Goethe's World-Conception: Fundamental Outlines with Special Reference to Schiller\u003c\/i\u003e (1940).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rudolf Steiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0880106239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780880106238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steiner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Rudolf Steiner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045842186495,"sku":"9780880106238","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_29c4a1e3-8863-4257-9aab-a208f7253785.jpg?v=1684981089","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/goethes-theory-of-knowledge-rudolf-steiner-9780880106238","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}