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Imagination: Enhancing the Powers of Thinking
Steiner, Rudolf ; de Boer, Edward ; de Boer, Edward
Synopsis "Imagination: Enhancing the Powers of Thinking"
Rudolf Steiner differentiated clearly between the spiritual concept of Imagination and our everyday understanding of the word. As living, pictorial thinking, Imagination is a primary aspect of the contemporary path of inner development--the first of three levels of initiate knowledge and cognition. Imagination leads us into a world of flowing, living pictures, a realm of soul and spirit where everything is in continuous movement. This anthology offers a survey of the diverse aspects of Imagination and imaginative cognition. As these thematically reordered texts show, Rudolf Steiner's spiritual philosophy (Anthroposophy) is itself often pictorial and imaginative. Steiner formulated many of its fundamental concepts, including the evolution of the world and the human being, in vivid, living imagery. However, while imaginative perception leads us to the threshold of the spiritual world, we can also succumb there to illusions, visions, and hallucinations.This volume, collected by Edward de Boer, draws on the entirety of Rudolf Steiner's collected works, including his earliest writings and passages from his numerous lectures. Its purpose is to stimulate readers to practice, deepen, and extend their own imaginative consciousness. Steiner's commentary on "exemplary Imaginations" encourages further study, contemplation, and training of one's own pictorial thinking.This volume is a translation from German of the book Imagination: Bildekraft des Denkens (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 2015).
Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Imperio austrohúngaro, hoy Croacia, 25 o 27 de febrero de 18611-Dornach, Suiza, 30 de marzo de 1925) fue un filósofo austriaco, erudito literario, educador, artista, autor teatral, pensador social y ocultista. Fue el fundador de la antroposofía, la educación Waldorf, la agricultura biodinámica, la medicina antroposófica5 y de la nueva forma artística de la euritmia.
Describió la antroposofía como sigue: La antroposofía es un sendero de conocimiento que quisiera conducir lo espiritual en el hombre a lo espiritual en el universo. Pueden ser antropósofos quienes sienten determinadas cuestiones sobre la esencia del hombre y del mundo como una necesidad tan vital como la que se siente cuando tenemos hambre y sed.
Steiner propuso una forma de individualismo ético, al que luego añadió un componente más explícitamente espiritual. Derivó su epistemología de la visión del mundo de Johann Wolfgang Goethe, según la cual el pensamiento es un órgano de percepción al igual que el ojo o el oído. Del mismo modo que el ojo percibe colores y el oído sonidos, así el pensamiento percibe ideas.
