VII. Modern Man and His World Conception

GA 18/p02c07/p052 · AP1973 LowLow alignmentMost translators re-paragraphed Steiner substantially. The locus identifies the same chapter or section, but paragraph-N to paragraph-N mapping is loose. For exact-quotation precision, compare with the German.

> To philosophize means to reverse the normal direction of the workings of thought . . . Symbolic knowledge is relative through preexisting concepts, which goes from the fixed to the moving, but not so intuitive knowledge, which establishes itself in the moving reality and adopts the life itself of things. (Introduction to Metaphysics)

Read this passage in another edition
ENAP1973
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/18/p02c07/p052.json
Cite: GA 18/p02c07/p052 · edition AP1973