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The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Comment V. The Application of Intelligence to the Human Body

Roman Boos
But such a construction would completely prevent speech, the peculiar work of the understanding. Although man has an erect posture, still he is the furtherest removed from plants. For man has raised his upper part, his head, towards the upper part of the world, and his lower part is towards the lower part of the world, and is therefore arranged the best in accordance with the total arrangement.
In order to get at least an idea of the mighty edifice which in the second part of the Summa Theologica brings the whole medley of human passions under the influence of the virtues, some chapters from his Teaching concerning them are appended in conclusion.
Therefore, Aristotle also says of a man with large soul, in his Ethics, that he is an open hater and an open lover, and that he speaks and acts frankly. But concupiscence one calls underground and insidious, because for the most part the desired object of delight savours to a certain extent of disgracefulness and voluptuousness, and herein man prefers to remain unseen.
75. The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences: Humanities, Natural Science, Technology 17 Jun 1920, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
By looking at our lives, we can see the transformations we have undergone in life. We think back to how we were in our inner soul and outer bodily state one, five, ten years ago, and we say to ourselves: we have undergone changes, transformations. These changes, these transformations that we undergo, how do we undergo them? We passively surrender to the outside world in a certain way. We just need to say: hand on heart, how active are we in what we have initially become through the outside world?
Materialism has not understood matter. Spiritual science, which is meant here, advances to the understanding of the material through its spiritual method.
75. The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences: Anthroposophy, Its Essence and Its Philosophical Foundations 08 Jul 1920, Bern

Rudolf Steiner
We then see how there is an important conclusion in a certain respect when the human being undergoes the change of teeth around the sixth, seventh or eighth year. This change of teeth is only understood in the right sense if we take into account the whole bodily, spiritual and soul life of the human being, as it changes in this important epoch of life.
It is easy for those of you, dear readers, who laugh at such a book because you do not understand all the effort that has been expended and all the paths that have been taken to achieve something like this.
Yes, we need not just a renaissance, we need a naissance of the spirit. It will come to us when today's youth understands and honors their task.
75. The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences: Natural Science and Anthroposophy 04 Jun 1921, Zürich

Rudolf Steiner
Anyone who keeps their eyes open today, who opens themselves to a deeper understanding of their environment, sees newer phenomena emerging in all cultural fields - in the fields of science, religion and art.
Anyone who reads this first volume of Brentano's psychology without prejudice will understand, I would say from the way in which this psychology is presented, why such a continuation has not been published.
We can say: in ordinary experience, we proceed from the external experience to ordinary memory in that the external images undergo a certain inner metamorphosis. In meditation, which is available in anthroposophical research, we go the other way.
75. The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences: Disputations on Scientific Questions 04 Jun 1921, Zürich

Rudolf Steiner
Only through the knowledge of the real spiritual world can one then also achieve, in a social sense, what is necessary in today's world in terms of material life, provided one finds understanding, because, of course, that is what it is all about. Therefore, on the one hand, one must have understanding for the meaning of pain and suffering, but on the other hand, one must also gain understanding for the implementation of spiritual knowledge in concrete terms.
What initially appears to be a theory is transformed all by itself into a vivid perception of the human form, and one gets to know and understand the human form from the inside out. This is how an attempt was made to work on the sculpture at the Goetheanum in Dornach in order to understand the human form from the inside out.
People should start from the areas in which they are currently involved; they will then come together. It is not so bad that they do not understand each other at first - from a certain point on, they do understand each other. It is also a matter of, for example, waiting for the right moments and so on, and fate will see to that.
75. The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences: Anthroposophy and Science 02 Nov 1921, Basel

Rudolf Steiner
Although it must go beyond the results and also the field of actual natural science, as it is usually understood today, it would like to include what underlies it as scientific discipline, as scientific methods, in the inner education for the anthroposophical method.
And this thinking in inner pictorialness makes the plant world understandable to us on the outside, and makes the unity of our entire life between birth and death understandable to us on the inside.
A strange polemic! First, what one believes one can understand is selected from the anthroposophical results, although one does not understand it at all. This is then categorized as hallucination and so on; that is accepted.
75. The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences: Agnosticism in Science and Anthroposophy 11 May 1922, Leipzig

Rudolf Steiner
Now, we will most easily come to an understanding of what I actually have to say today in this introductory lecture if I first remind you of something well known that can point to the transformation that the human cognitive process has undergone in the course of human development.
From this artistic point of view, one can see how the Greeks understood therapy, the healing process. He understood it to mean that he assumed that something pathological was forming in the diseased organism.
And finally, religious life was seen as the comprehensive, great process of recovery of humanity, so that, in understanding knowledge in the old way, we must actually say: there knowledge is understood as something that comes from the whole human being.
76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Opening Address 03 Apr 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
But it seems to me that even such a seemingly rock-solid magic word in the development of mankind can only survive today, in our times of great transformation, if it undergoes a kind of transformation itself, absorbing the forces of our time. And so it seems to me that the ancient oracle of Delphi must now sound to people as follows: Know thyself, and become a free being!
The great ideal of natural science is to study natural phenomena with this law of causation, to perceive them — in accordance with their essence — according to this law of causation, and thus also to understand from man what is to be understood from him according to this law of causation. One does not yet fully understand with living feeling what this striving, this ideal, actually means for human life.
— and that which springs from his behavior of recognizing himself in relation to outer nature, under the watchwords: Man, become a free being! These two words of truth may be seen as two pillars that stand ideally in the spirit when one enters this building: the pillar of truthful, light-filled human self-knowledge and the pillar of human freedom.
76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Philosophy 04 Apr 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Therefore no instinctive action, no traditional action, no action under a habit is really free, but only an action that can follow the images that weave in pure thinking.
When you bump into something, you feel that the object has an effect on you. When you perform an act under an instinct, under an urge, you must feel that there is something pushing, that there is no freedom.
If one grasps the actual, pressing philosophical life of the present at this point, then one comes away from all the talk that the philosopher cannot understand what the spiritual researcher is saying. He can understand it as soon as he has understood the pictorial character of his thinking, but also as soon as he has understood that thinking has come to this pictorial character because it moves in world history from the outside in, from the direction of the spirit in matter to the contemplation of the pure spiritual world.
76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Mathematics and the Inorganic Natural Sciences 05 Apr 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
That is to say, one must realize that one can never penetrate into the inner essential differentiation through mathematics if one understands mathematics in the narrow sense in which it is still often understood today. But even within mathematics we can already see a kind of path that leads out of mathematics itself.
This path is at the same time the one that the real undergoes in order to become our object of knowledge. Of course, in intuition we are immersed in reality.
Yes, we need conscientious understanding, we need penetrating insight. But above all, we need what youth could bring out of its natural abilities.

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