Post by MagnetMan on Mar 13, 2010 14:12:29 GMT -5
STEINER Quotes Excerpted from:
An Outline of Esoteric Science - R. Steiner
es·o·ter·ic, understood from within. The word Esoteric comes from two Greek words meaning 'from+within', The 'esoteric meaning' of a word, then, refers to a deeper, or more profound significance or understanding than what is commonly derived from the mere 'surface' connotation.
-RealMeaning Dictionary
...The soul experiences itself during its active involvement with nature, and the result of this living involvement is something other than knowledge about nature itself, namely the self-development experienced in acquiring this knowledge.
Esoteric science attempts to apply the result of this self-development to areas that transcend mere nature.
…The definitive factor in the birth of a science is not the object that is studied but the type of human soul-activity that takes place during the scientific quest.
The activity and attitude of the soul involved in the study of science is what we need to look at.
...Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things
in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things.
...While natural-scientific methods of research and ways of thinking stop short at the sensory world, esoteric science views the soul’s work in the natural world as a means of self-education and attempts to apply the faculties that develop in this way to non-sensory domains. Instead of attempting to speak about sensory phenomena as such, esoteric science speaks about the non-sensory contents of the world in the same way that scientists speak about its sense-perceptible contents. In this process, it retains the inner attitude of the scientific method, which is what makes the study of nature a science in the first place. This permits esoteric science to call itself a science.
An Outline of Esoteric Science - R. Steiner
es·o·ter·ic, understood from within. The word Esoteric comes from two Greek words meaning 'from+within', The 'esoteric meaning' of a word, then, refers to a deeper, or more profound significance or understanding than what is commonly derived from the mere 'surface' connotation.
-RealMeaning Dictionary
...The soul experiences itself during its active involvement with nature, and the result of this living involvement is something other than knowledge about nature itself, namely the self-development experienced in acquiring this knowledge.
Esoteric science attempts to apply the result of this self-development to areas that transcend mere nature.
…The definitive factor in the birth of a science is not the object that is studied but the type of human soul-activity that takes place during the scientific quest.
The activity and attitude of the soul involved in the study of science is what we need to look at.
...Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things
in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things.
...While natural-scientific methods of research and ways of thinking stop short at the sensory world, esoteric science views the soul’s work in the natural world as a means of self-education and attempts to apply the faculties that develop in this way to non-sensory domains. Instead of attempting to speak about sensory phenomena as such, esoteric science speaks about the non-sensory contents of the world in the same way that scientists speak about its sense-perceptible contents. In this process, it retains the inner attitude of the scientific method, which is what makes the study of nature a science in the first place. This permits esoteric science to call itself a science.
