Study Of Man: General Education Course / Fourteen Lectures Given in stuttgart Between 21 August and 5 September 1919,9781855841871

Study Of Man: General Education Course / Fourteen Lectures Given in stuttgart Between 21 August and 5 September 1919

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ISBN13: 9781855841871
ISBN10: 1855841878
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Pub. Date: 2004-08-30
Publisher(s): Rudolf Steiner Pr
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Summary

Reprinted here in the original ?classic? translation by A.C. Harwood and Helen Fox, these lectures were given in 1919 to the teachers of the Waldorf school in Stuttgart?the first to be based on the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner. After eighty-five years of Waldorf education?and exponential growth around the world?this volume remains the basic study text for teachers in Steiner schools. As well as providing a basis for the work of educators, Study of Man will be of special interest to parents, counselors, psychologists, and students of Rudolf Steiner's philosophy?for whom this volume provides a fundamental picture of the human being according to the anthroposophic understanding of the world.

Table of Contents

Lecture I
Egoism and Materialism.
Life before birth and after death.
Pre-natal Education.
Union of Spirit and Soul elements before birth.
Union of these with Life-Body after birth.
Importance of breathing in uniting the three-fold man.
Nature of sleep in child and adult.
The teacher makes his relation with the child through what he is, which depends on his thoughts about the world.
Children must learn to breathe and to sleep.
15(11)
Lecture II
Mental picture and Will not understood to-day.
Image character of mental picture which is devoid of reality or being.
Mental picture stems from life before birth, Will from life after death.
The former works through antipathy, the latter through sympathy.
Memory arises through heightened antipathy, Imagination through heightened sympathy, as also sense pictures.
Contrast of nerves and blood.
Decay and seed.
True function of motor nerves.
Three places where sympathy and antipathy meet.
Cosmic relations of threefold organism of man.
Concepts produce carbonic acid, imaginative pictures oxygen.
Need for planting seed pictures in child.
26(15)
Lecture III
Equal importance of teachers of children of all ages.
Twofold division of man has supplanted older division into Body, Soul and Spirit.
Conservation of energy not true for man.
Intellect grasps only the dying, Will, in sense perception, grasps the becoming.
Unique nature of 'pure thinking.'
Nature could not exist without man.
Dead human bodies are yeast to earth.
Man thinks with bones as well as nerves.
Origin of geometry lies in movement.
Man keeps earth alive.
Man not merely a spectator but a stage for cosmic events.
Transformation, not conservation, is true law of life.
41(16)
Lecture IV
Will and feeling not understood to-day.
Will never fully realised in life, something remains over.
The three Spiritual Principles: Spirit-Self-Manas-Manes;
Life Spirit; Spirit Man.
The three Soul Principles: Consciousness, Intellectual and Sentient Souls.
The three Bodily Principles: Astral, Etheric and Physical.
How Will works in these.
In physical, as instinct-animals act according to their physical bodies.
In etheric, as impulse.
In astral, as desire, which reaches to soul element.
Through his ego man raises these to motive.
Behind motive lie, in the unconscious, wish, intention and resolution which live in the three Spiritual Principles.
Story of lady and horses, illustrating cleverness of the unconscious.
Teacher must understand hidden being of man.
Marxist education illustrated.
Repetition, not exhortation, affects the Will.
57(14)
Lecture V
Each of the three soul activities includes qualities of all.
Balance of sympathy and antipathy in the senses.
Human and animal senses.
Child lives in sympathy.
Moral development through antipathy.
Between willing (sympathy) and thinking (antipathy) lies feeling which comprises both.
True nature of judgment.
Feeling is cognition in reserve and will in reserve.
Meeting place of blood and nerves.
Beckmesser and Walther.
Wagner and Hanslik.
Variety of feeling in different senses.
Reality must be won through work.
71(13)
Lecture VI
Soul reveals itself in sympathy and antipathy.
Light of consciousness in thinking.
Unconsciousness of Will.
Feeling lies midway.
Man wakes in thinking, sleeps in willing, dreams in feeling.
Types of children and how to help them.
Ego, youngest principle of man, can only live in images, not in real forces of the world.
How ego lives in thinking, feeling and willing.
Difference of the two parts of Faust.
Waking-knowing in images: Dreaming-inspired feeling: Sleeping-intuitive willing.
84(14)
Lecture VII
Soul apprehended through sympathy and antipathy: Spirit through states of consciousness.
All comprehension comes through relating things.
In childhood man principally Body; in middle years Soul; in old age Spirit.
Body may block Spirit in old age (Kant-Michelet-Zeller).
Man may belie Soul in middle years.
Willing united with feeling in childhood, cognition with feeling in old age.
Sense perception related to willing-feeling, not to cognition.
Hence it lives in dreaming-sleeping. Moritz Benedikt's work.
Two zones where man sleeps-sense sphere on periphery and inner sphere of blood and muscle.
Physical-chemical processes in both.
Intermediate sphere of decaying nerve substance is sphere of waking, where man becomes light, sound, etc.
This is space aspect.
In time, forgetting is sleeping, memory is waking.
98(14)
Lecture VIII
Effect of sleep on ego.
Need to regulate remembering and forgetting.
Connection of Will and memory.
Interest begets memory.
Each soul force contains the others as well.
The Twelve Senses.
Sense of another's ego lives in sympathy and antipathy.
Touch, Life, Movement, Balance related to Will: Smell, Taste, Sight, Warmth to feeling: Ego-sense, Thought, Hearing, Speech to knowing.
Interrelation of senses.
Colour and form perceived by different senses.
Goethe and colour.
112(13)
Lecture IX
In first seven-year period child develops through imitation: in second through authority; in third through individual judgment.
Need to permeate thinking with logic.
The syllogism.
Conclusions live in waking life and should not be memorised.
Judgments carried in feeling.
Concepts enter sleeping soul and affect body.
Concepts of child form face of adult. Characterisations needed, not definitions.
Relate everything to Man.
Prayer metamorphosed to Blessing.
In first period child assumes world is moral; in second beautiful; in third true.
125(12)
Lecture X
Consideration of Body.
Spherical (Sun) form of head.
Moon form of breast.
Radial form of limbs.
Jaws are stunted limbs in head.
Blood and muscle nature of limbs.
Tubular limb bones: rounded head bones.
Metamorphosis in bones.
Head centre, is within: breast centre outside: limb centre in periphery.
Sense of cosmic relations in ancient sculpture.
Head arrests limb movement.
Head and breast turn limb dance to song and music.
Head man reveals Body: Breast man Body and Soul: Limb man Body, Soul and Spirit.
Council of 869 A.D. and its consequences.
Head alone is evolved animal, not breast or limbs.
Teacher must understand man as microcosm.
137(12)
Lecture XI
Relation of head to Body, Soul and Spirit.
In first period of childhood Soul and Spirit are dreaming and sleeping outside child, hence he imitates.
Head fully formed at change of teeth.
Relation of Breast and Limbs to Body, Soul and Spirit.
Head perfected but sleeping.
Limbs awake but unformed.
Teacher can only educate part of child.
First mother milk, then mother speech awaken child.
Teacher's task to continue this awakening.
Writing should be learnt by way of breast and limbs, and developed from drawing and painting.
Elementary school concerned with breast man.
Relation of memory and imagination to physical growth.
149(11)
Lecture XII
Relation of human organs to outer world.
Head the oldest formation.
It shapes the human being, but has tendency to create animal forms.
Trunk and limb systems prevent this, and transform animal forms into thoughts.
Trunk system related to plant world.
Oxygen changed to carbon in breathing.
Plants would arise in man if he retained carbon.
Illnesses caused through plant nature asserting itself.
Plants are pictures of illnesses.
In digestion only middle process of combustion occurs.
How breathing-the anti-plant process-unites with this middle.
Hygiene of future.
Mechanics of limb movement, behind which lie the forces in which the ego lives.
These forces dissolve the mineral in man.
Destructive illnesses arise when this does not happen.
Lines of therapy.
160(12)
Lecture XIII
Head formed from within out; limbs from without in.
Man acts as dam for inrushing Soul and Spirit.
Balance between destructive activity of these and constructive of Body.
Part played by chest and limb systems.
Nature and effect of fat in child.
Living elements absorb Soul and Spirit, decaying let them through.
Blood opaque to Spirit, Nerve transparent.
Spirit active in bodily work, Body in mental.
Relation of sleep to different forms of bodily activity.
Purposeful movements needed.
Eurythmy and Sport.
Sport practical Darwinism.
Relation of sleep to different forms of mental activity.
Interest essential.
172(10)
Lecture XIV
In Head, nose represents trunk, jaws limbs.
Actual limbs are jaws of a spiritual head which continually devour man from without.
Upper part of chest man develops to head nature in larynx-the "head of the throat."
Sounds of speech, nasal, etc., correspond to parts of head.
When second teeth appear grammar needed as corresponding skeleton of speech.
Lower trunk develops limb character towards puberty in sex organs which are coarsened limb nature.
Inner warmth necessary as correspondence, i.e. Imagination.
Examples in imaginative treatment of subjects.
Camera Obscura and theorem of Pythagoras.
No pedantry permissible in teaching.
Schelling.
A maxim for teachers.
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