GA 324

Observation of Nature, Experiment, Mathematics and the Levels of Knowledge of Spiritual Research

Naturbeobachtung, Experiment, Mathematik und die Erkenntnisstufen der Geistesforschung

Eight lectures and a discussion paper given at the "Free Anthroposophical University Course", Stuttgart 16-23 March 1921.

In these lectures Rudolf Steiner examines in detail the realities of scientific methods - observation of nature, experiment and especially the mathematical treatment of natural facts - and develops imaginative cognition by analogy and in continuation of mathematical knowledge, as it were as successive stages of cognition. This imaginative cognition is followed in a consistent continuation by an exposition of inspired and intuitive cognition. Further methodological explanations of the fundamental questions of a science of history and an outlook on the social work of anthroposophy round off the lectures.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophy and Science. Translated by W. Stuber and M. Gardner. Mercury Press 1991. ISBN 978-0929979212

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Naturbeobachtung, Experiment, Mathematik und die Erkenntnisstufen der Geistesforschung, GA 324 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-3242-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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