Ancient Greek Consciousness (Introductions to Anthroposophy)

By Rudolf Steiner

This booklet offers excerpts from three lectures by Rudolf Steiner on ancient Greek consciousness. The lectures are disparate: they date from 1911, 1921 and 1922, and they are all different in style. But they are unified by providing extraordinary insight into that consciousness which is so very different from ours. To say even that Steiner rewrote history would be an understatement: it would be more accurate to say that he added a whole new dimension to historiography as such. The evolution of consciousness as Steiner describes it transcends any mere history of ideas, arguing that not only the content, but the very structure of consciousness, the subject-object relationship itself, has evolved radically over time. Steiner's full account is dispersed across numerous volumes, but, fortunately, Owen Barfield has provided us with a magisterial summary, interpretation, and original application of Steiner's ideas in his book Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry. I've also included Chapter VI from this work because, for all its brevity, it sheds important light on Steiner's lectures, providing the key concept of "original participation."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980769664
• ISBN13: 9781980769668
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"