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Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual component.
He derived his epistemology from Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, where “Thinking… is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.”[7]
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he was often giving two, three or even four lectures daily for courses taking place concurrently. On the one hand, many of these were for practical areas of life: education, curative eurythmy, speech and drama. On the other hand, Steiner began a new, extensive series of lectures presenting his research on the successive lives of various individuals, and on the technique of karma research generally.[23]
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[edit] Spiritual research
... experiences that he claimed were of the spiritual world — experiences he said had touched him from an early age on.[13] ...
Steiner believed that through freely chosen ethical disciplines and meditative training, anyone could develop the ability to experience the spiritual world, including the higher nature of oneself and others.[13] Steiner believed that such discipline and training would help a person to become a more moral, creative and free individual - free in the sense of being capable of actions motivated solely by love.[25]
Steiner's ideas about the inner life were influenced by Franz Brentano[13] - with whom he had studied - and Wilhelm Dilthey, founders of the phenomenological movement in European philosophy. Steiner was also influenced by Goethe's phenomenological approach to science.[13][26][27]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threefold_Social_Order
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uncoerced cooperation/community in economic life
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Steiner made many concrete reform proposals, but the threefold social order is a living open direction and process, not a fixed or finite plan.
The movement has resulted in the creation of various socially-responsible banks and foundations. Many institutions, within their own structures, have striven to realize the relative independence of the three social spheres. The work on organizational development founded by Bernard Lievegoed deserves special mention here, as do many aspects of the Waldorf school movement.[2]
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[edit] Separation between the state and the economy (stakeholder economics)
Examples: A rich man should be prevented from buying politicians and laws. A politician shouldn’t be able to parlay his political position into riches earned by doing favors for businessmen. Slavery is unjust, because it takes something political, a person’s inalienable rights, and absorbs them into the economic process of buying and selling. Steiner said, "In the old days, there were slaves. The entire man was sold as commodity... Today, capitalism is the power through which still a remnant of the human being—his labor power—is stamped with the character of a commodity."[5] Steiner also advocated more cooperatively organized forms of capitalism (what might today be called stakeholder capitalism) precisely because conventional shareholder capitalism tends to absorb the State and human rights into the economic process and transform them into mere commodities.[4]
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[edit] Donations
The cultural realm (education, religion, research etc) by businesses and individuals is largely supported by donations.
Steiner suggested that profits from businesses - i.e. from what remains after the workers have been paid and loans and interest have been paid back should be used to support cultural endeavors. According to social threefolding, returning this money to shareholders leads to an unhealthy social organism. In business profits are made through creativity and inspiration. People get creativity and inspiration from the cultural realm it therefore makes sense to plough the profit back into the cultural realm of society. Taxes are a form of forced donation; according to social threefolding for a healthy social organism giving money should be donated in freedom to the cultural sphere.
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[edit] Civil society
Institutions of civil society -- non-profits that for the most part are independent of both the State and the economic life -- are globally on the rise.[citation needed] This is seen by some observers as a sign of the cultural realm developing independence from governmental and economic institutions.[citation needed]
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