Man or Matter

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MAN OR MATTER

Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature
on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation andThought

by

ERNST LEHRS Ph. D.

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Contents

PREFACE

Part I

SCIENCE AT THE THRESHOLD

I. INTRODUCTORY

The author's search for a way ofextending the boundaries of scientific understanding. A meetingwith Rudolf Steiner, and with the work arising from histeachings.

II. WHERE DO WE STAND TO-DAY?

The self-restriction ofscientific inquiry to one-eyed colourblind observation. Itseffect: The lack of a true conception of'force'.

III. THE ONLOOKER'S PHILOSOPHICMALADY

Thought - the sole reality andyet a pure non-entity for the modern spectator. Descartes andHume. Robert Hooke's 'proof' of the non-reality of conceptualthinking. The modern principle of Indeterminacy - a sign thatscience is still dominated by the Humean way ofthinking.

IV. THE COUNTRY THAT IS NOT OURS

Electricity, man's competitor inmodern civilization. The onlooker in search of the soul ofnature. Galvani and Crookes. Paradoxes in the discovery ofelectricity. 'Something unknown is doing we don't knowwhat.'

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Part II GOETHEANISM - WHENCE ANDWHITHER

V. THE ADVENTURE OF REASON

Kant and Goethe. Goethe's studyof the plant - a path toward seeing with the eye-of-the-spirit.Nature a script that asks to be read.

VI. EXCEPT WE BECOME ...

Spiritual kinsmen of Goethe inthe British sphere of human culture.
Thomas Reid's philosophic discovery, its significance for theovercoming of the onlooker-standpoint

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