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46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Goethe's World View in the History of Thought

Rudolf Steiner
As long as the old worldview lived in people's minds, the old forms of society and state were also justified. Hegel recognized this. He understood that the old world order is the way it must be according to the old world of ideas.
Spinoza spun a logical web that makes the healthy person shiver. Kant [gathered] the errors of the centuries in himself. He was full of the educational prejudices of these centuries. Kant's gospel was the distressing gospel of Faust, that we cannot know anything. And Goethe, when he realized the bleak bleakness of this world view, could well say: it almost makes my heart burn.
3. Truth and Knowledge (1963): Introduction
Tr. Rita Stebbing

Rudolf Steiner
J. H. Witte, Beiträge zur Verständnis Kants (Contirbutions to the Understanding of Kant), Berlin, 1874. ___Vorstudien zur Erkenntnis des unerfahrbaren Seins (Preliminary Studies for the Cognition of Non-Experienceable Existence), Bonn, 1876.
F. Frederichs, Der Freiheitsbegriff Kants und Fichtes (The Concept of Freedom of Kant and Fichte), Berlin, 1886. O. Gühloff, Der transcendentale Idealismus (Transcendental Idealism), Halle, 1888.
Hensel, Ueber die Beizehung des reinen Ich bei Fichte zur Einheit der Apperception bei Kant (On the Relation between the Pure I in the Works of Fichte and the Unity of Perception in those of Kant), Freiburg i.
18. The Riddles of Philosophy: The Classics of World and Life Conception
Tr. Fritz C. A. Koelln

Rudolf Steiner
[ 13 ] With views of this kind, Schelling shows himself to be the boldest and most courageous of the group of philosophers who were stimulated to develop an idealistic world conception by Kant. Under Kant's influence, the attempt to philosophize about things that transcended thinking and observation was abandoned.
This, according to Hegel, would really be absence of freedom. An individual of this kind would not be in agreement with his own essence; he would be imperfect.
He would be the incomplete basic substance of the world. He would not know of himself. Hegel has presented this God before his realization in life. The content of the presentation is Hegel's Logic.
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: The Past and Current Reputation of German Philosophy 30 Dec 1886,
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Rudolf Steiner
When Rosenkranz completed his biography of Hegel in 1844, he wrote the meaningful words in the preface: "Does it not seem as if we are today only the gravediggers and monument-setters for the philosophers whom the second half of the last century gave birth to in order to die in the first half of the present century? Kant began this death of German philosophers in 1804. Do we see an offspring for this harvest of death?
Schiller considered himself fortunate to live at the time when Kant was bringing the greatest world problems into flow, and there are philosophical truths that no one has grasped more deeply than Schiller to this day.
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: Goethe as an Aesthetician 23 Dec 1888,
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Rudolf Steiner
The task of aesthetics is now to understand art as this third realm and to understand the endeavors of artists from this point of view. It is to the credit of Kant's "Critique of Judgment", published in 1790, that the problem was first raised in the way we have indicated and that all the main aesthetic questions were thus actually brought into flow.
And in this, all aestheticians follow the idealizing direction of Schelling. Neither Hegel and Schopenhauer, nor their successors, have made any progress on this point.1 When Hegel says: "The beautiful is the sensuous appearance of the idea" and even more clearly: "The hard bark of nature and the ordinary world make it more sour for the spirit to penetrate to the idea than the works of art", it is quite clearly expressed therein that the aim of art is the same as that of science, namely to grasp the idea, only science wants to present it to us in pure thought form, but art in a sensuous way through a sensual means of expression.
1. Even Eduard von Hartmann's comments on Hegel in his large-scale, intellectual aesthetics cannot shake me in this conviction, and the quotations cited in the text certainly speak for me.
30. The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (1963): Compiled Notes

Paul Marshall Allen
Otto Liebmann (1840–1912) was well known for his writings on Kant's philosophical world-view. 29.Johannes Volkelt (1848–1930), Immanuel Kant’s Erkenntnistheorie, Immanuel Kant's Theory of Cognition, Hamburg, 1879.
See Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Introd. to 2nd edition. Sec. vi. 82.Kant, Prolegomena, Sec. v.
Volkelt is mistaken about Fischer when he says (Kant's Erkenntnistheorie, Kant's Theory of Cognition, p. 198 f.) that “it is not clear from the account by K.
18. The Riddles of Philosophy: The World as Illusion
Tr. Fritz C. A. Koelln

Rudolf Steiner
Hegel experiences himself as a part, a member of the world, and what he experiences within himself must also belong to the world.
Hegel makes the assumption that the concepts in us are not arbitrarily formed but have their root in the essence of the world, as we ourselves belong to this essence.
It is just this process that is presented to us in the Kant-Laplace hypothesis of world evolution. Dispersed parts of a chaotic world nebula have contracted.
30. Collected Essays on Philosophy, Science, Aesthetics and Psychology 1884–1901: The Spiritual Signature of the Present
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Rudolf Steiner
Anyone who dares to contradict the "fantasies of Fichte" or the "insubstantial thoughts and word games" of Hegel is simply portrayed as a dilettante "who has as little idea of the spirit of modern natural science as he does of the solidity and rigor of the philosophical method". Only Kant and Schopenhauer find favor with our contemporaries. The former succeeds in seemingly deriving from his teachings the somewhat sparse philosophical chunks on which modern research is based; the latter, in addition to his strictly scientific achievements, also wrote works in a light style and about things that need not be too remote even for people with the most modest intellectual horizon.
It does not occur to us to want to deny the manifold errors and one-sidedness that Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Oken and others committed in their bold undertakings in the realm of idealism, but the tendency that inspired them should not be misjudged in its grandeur.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: On Philosophy 20 Mar 1908, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
All knowledge is knowledge of habit; there is no rational knowledge. Kant awoke from his dogmatic slumber. But he could not completely go along with it. He said: Hume is right; we gain everything from experience.
All experience is governed by our form of knowledge. Thus Kant linked Hume with Wolff. Now man is ensnared in this philosophical web. Fichte, Schelling and Hegel are exceptions.
I also have the right to kill everything. Kant uses very convoluted terms. Kant says: I have destroyed knowledge to make room for faith. He has limited knowledge and established a practical faith because everything is spun out of the subjective.
31. Collected Essays on Cultural and Contemporary History 1887–1901: Friedrich Kirchner 19 Aug 1893,

Rudolf Steiner
Today it is despised as an idealism that flies over reality. It may be that Fichte, Schelling and Hegel taught errors from our point of view. Then we should try to overcome them and improve them in line with the times.
The time that does not have the strength for this brings forward greats such as Sudermann, the time to which Kant and Fichte gave their signature, Schiller and Goethe.

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