The Triorganic Social Organism: An Exposition of the Embryonal Points of the Social Question in the Life-Necessities of the Present and Future

by Rudolph Steiner, O. Henry Frederick (Translator)

Overview

FOREWORD AS TO THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK

The social life of the present day propounds grave and far-reaching problems. We are faced with demands for new forms of social structure. Confronted by these demands, we become aware that the solution of these problems must be sought along paths that have hitherto not been thought of. On the strength of existing facts, perhaps there may today be a chance for him to obtain a hearing, whose experience of life convinces him that the present chaos is due to lack of thought - is due to this very failure to think out roads that have become necessary. The arguments of the following work are based upon such a conviction. Their object is to indicate what must be done in order to turn the demands that are today, put forward by a great portion of mankind toward the direction of a social purpose that is resolute and conscious of its goal.

Whether these demands are agreeable to this person or that ought to have but little influence in forming such a resolve. These demands exist, and they have to be reckoned with as facts of social life. This must be remembered by those who, because of their personal position in life, may be inclined to be displeased with the way in which the writer speaks when dealing with the demands of the working class; because, from their point of view, he lays too exclusive an emphasis on these demands as something to be taken into account in forming a social purpose. But the writer is talking of the life around us today in all its actuality, in so far as his experience of it enables him to speak. He sees clearly the terrible consequences that must ensue if people persist in ignoring those undeniable facts which have actually arisen out of the life of modern humanity, and if they accordingly will have nothing to do with a social purpose which recognizes these facts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663531308
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/11/2020
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 (or 25) February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, esotericist,and claimed clairvoyant.[9][10] Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy; other influences include Goethean science and Rosicrucianism.