Tag: philosophy
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Twelve Ways to Overcome Onesidedness
In his lecture series Human and Cosmic Thought, Rudolf Steiner explained the importance of understandings from twelve different worldviews — from materialism to spiritualism, from idealism to realism — in order to attain a balanced view of the whole. In the introduction to the 1991 English translation, Nick Thomas wrote that: Rudolf Steiner shows that…
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Reality, Truth and Revelation
For whatever reasons, few realists have described themselves as such and most philosophical writing on realism has been against the beliefs of others. Whatever we believe is real, is something that we normally take for granted as true; it lies at the unspoken foundation of our worldview. This is why I believe it is important.…
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![[Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/nuremberg_chronicles_f_72v_2-parmenides-big.webp?w=1024)
[Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4
Technological innovations may have been developed by this time, but their conception was not seen as we do today. They were not created or understood by means of abstract thought, but through imaginative (creative, but exact) thought pictures…
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 5: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/liebig_company_trading_card_ad_01.12.002_front.tif.jpg?w=640)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 5: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism
An early draft of a deprecated chapter on Medieval alchemy…
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/801px-plato_in_nuremberg_chronicle_lxxiiiv-1918879990-e1725717021405.jpg?w=801)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance
A draft version of a deprecated chapter about the later classical philosophers, including the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle and the Epicureans…
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Outline of Book
In which I introduce the main themes of the book: Biodynamics and Rudolf Steiner’s indications for a hidden alchemy in living processes; The taming of the atom – a sub-natural phenomenon; Biological transmutation of chemical elements and the requirement for a new Goethean scientific worldview.
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![[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1280px-kairo_museum_eisendolch_tutanchamun_01.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)
This deprecated draft chapter started as a historical review of chemistry in the West. This update interweaves its content with Rudolf Steiner’s Riddles of Philosophy. Also used is E.J. Dijksterhuis The Mechanization of the World Picture….
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![[Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/thomas-aquinas-from-bl-harley-916-f-1-1ad065-780924099-e1725995146165.jpg?w=584)
[Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas
Ancient Greek physics – developing an understanding of knowledge – epistemology – and the natural world – physics – a world of beings – entities which exist – Plato and Aristotle expressed the same holistic ideas – from different perspectives. The essence of things – ousia – thinghood. Also the concepts of matter, atoms, and…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 