Скачать или смотреть (4/6) Goethe's Theory of Knowledge: Through (Kantian) subjective idealism to objective realism

Jeff, Alexander and I continue our series looking at Steiner's description of Goethe's theory of knowledge as derived from Goethe's artistic and scientific productions.
In this conversation we consider chapters 11-14 of the book

0:00 What Chapters Are We Covering Today? Introduction to Steiner's Epistemology, Chapters 11-14
3:00 Why is Perception Without Thinking "Nothing"? Exploring the role of thinking in revealing essence
7:50 What is the Relationship Between Concept and Percept? How thinking clarifies the connection
11:24 How is Steiner Different From Hegel? Distinguishing Steiner's concept of idealism
13:48 What is Thinking's Role in Revealing Essence? Exploring the relationship to phenomenological observation
16:32 How Does Spinoza Relate to Infinity? Connecting mathematical freedom to conceptual infinity
21:00 What is the Essence of Movement? Analogy of the cat in the sack to describe thinking
22:57 How Did Aristotle Change Thinking? From mythical to scientific thought
24:42 How Do We Resolve Polarities? Metamorphosis and the process of cognitive resolution
29:28 What is the Religious Aspect of Knowledge? Overcoming separateness and the unity of reality
32:30 Why Haven't We Been Awake to Thinking? Exploring the difficulty of grasping thinking's details
36:45 What Can We Learn From Angels? Perspective from the angelic realm and formless perception
40:12 What is the Pain of Separateness? Leading into Chapter 12
42:16 How Do the Spirits Relate to Us? Different intelligences expressing themselves
43:14 What is the Role of the Analytic? Conceptual tearing apart and ordering things
45:50 How Does Marx Relate to Hegel? Totalitarian picture of combination vs freedom
47:53 How Can We Bring the Synthetical into the Analytical? Bringing the parts back together
51:20 How Can We Develop Our Organs of Thinking? Experiencing holistic thinking
53:30 How Can Dance Help Understand Thinking? Moving from awkwardness to flowing movement
57:53 How Can We Avoid Subjective Fantasies? Thinking's ability to establish conceptual relationships
1:00:27 What is Infinite Regress? Exploring the analytical and infinite loops
1:02:26 What is the Heart's Role? The heart as a cognitive organ
1:07:12 How Can We Bring Feeling and Reason Together? Bringing both into relationship with unity
1:09:50 What's the Role of the Individual? The importance of subjectivity and the individual
1:11:53 How Can We Grasp Thinking's Core? Overcoming subjective limitations
1:14:15 What Does it Mean to be a Canan Thinker? The idea that all our thoughts are merely subjective
1:16:57 What is the Essence of Thinking? Revealing its own inner nature
1:20:26 How Does This Relate to the Upanishads? Drawing parallels to Eastern literature
1:25:45 How Can We Know the World? Through thinking and the human being
1:28:04 What is the Dogma of Revelation? Thinking used as a tool rather than to discover its own nature
1:31:18 What is the Dogma of Experience? Truth only in what the senses give us
1:35:30 How is Knowledge Possible? The human being as the tool
1:38:04 How Does This Relate to Imminence and Transcendence? Complementary aspects of reality
1:41:09 How Does This Relate to Karma and Reincarnation? Proof of concept and the spiritual realm

Thinking as a Higher Experience within Experience
Thinking and Consciousness
The Inner Nature of Thinking

Thought and Perception
Intellect and Reason
The Act of Knowing
The Ground of Things and the Activity of Knowing
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