Ancient Greek Consciousness (Introductions to Anthroposophy Book 3)

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This booklet offers excerpts from three lectures by Rudolf Steiner on ancient Greek consciousness. The lectures are disparate: they date from 1911, 1921 and 1922, and they’re all different in style. But they’re unified by providing atypical insight into that consciousness which is so very different from ours. To say even that Steiner rewrote history would be a real understatement: it might be more accurate to say that he added an entire new dimension to historiography as such. The evolution of consciousness as Steiner describes it transcends any mere history of ideas, arguing that not only the content, however the very structure of consciousness, the subject-object relationship itself, has evolved radically through the years. Steiner’s full account is dispersed across a lot of volumes, but, fortunately, Owen Barfield has provided us with a magisterial summary, interpretation, and original application of Steiner’s ideas in his book Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry. I’ve also included Chapter VI from this work because, for all its brevity, it sheds necessary light on Steiner’s lectures, providing the important thing concept of “original participation.”

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