Table of Contents
About This Book 1
1 Before anything else can be grasped, thinking itself must be 7
2 The world's content of ideas is founded on itself 15
3 We do not act because we should but because we have the will to 19
4 A consciously knowing being cannot be unfree 24
5 To err is to be human 28
6 Overcoming our sensory nature through the spirit is the goal of art and science 32
7 Nothing actually sunders itself from the rest of the world 36
8 The source of morality is spiritual pleasure in what we ourselves engender 41
9 We can only find nature outside us if we first know it within us 43
10 Outer freedom in social interaction depends upon the inner freedom of each individual 49
11 On occasion truth is destined to sound paradoxical in relation to contemporary realities 52
12 With our I, you see, we are quite alone 55
Bibliography 59
GA Page References 62
