• The reversal of the position in knowing

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    08-11-2017 2 comments

    The reversal of the position in knowing

    In this article the reversal of the relationship between sensual perception and concepts has been described. In one of his first books, Rudolf Steiner points again to this reversal. It is in 'The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception with Specific Reference to Schiller', GA 2. I quote the passages that are co... read more...

  • Discussion of the article 'Only Possible Critique of the Atomistic Concepts' of Rudolf Steiner from 1882. Part one

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    01-11-2017 2 comments

    Discussion of the article 'Only Possible Critique of the Atomistic Concepts' of Rudolf Steiner from 1882. Part one

    It is one thing to read a text, quite another to understand what is said in it. Here, the question is: What did the author mean? In this article, an important point that recurs several times is the relationship between sensual perception that comes from outside and conceptual understanding that comes from inside. Natural scienc... read more...

  • Only Possible Critique of the Atomistic Concepts

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    25-10-2017 2 comments

    Only Possible Critique of the Atomistic Concepts

    In Antwerpen we studied this article. In the coming weeks I will describe some results of this study. At first a quote. 'Modern natural science regards Experience as the only source for the investigation of truth. And not wrongly, to be sure. Its area is the realm of outer, spatial things and temporal processes.... read more...

  • The heart as a sense

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    18-10-2017 3 comments

    The heart as a sense

    'If we would be only thinkers, and had nothing else in our souls than the capability of thinking concepts and combining them with logic, or analysing complicated thoughts with logic, we would really not be able ever to know whether something is true or not We would be in the state that modern philosophy says we are in. With logi... read more...

  • Feeling as a musical composition

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    11-10-2017 2 comments

    Feeling as a musical composition

    Our feeling potency is not from this world. Modern science laughs about words like this, but in older times - and also in coming times - we knew and will know that the feelings of human beings are composed from the tones of the harmony of the spheres. Johannes Kepler, although a scientist in a modern way, still had a feeling for... read more...