6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

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Scientific thinking, which has achieved so much in a certain area, proves, upon closer examination, to be incapable of addressing the actual enigmatic questions of humanity concerning the realm of the spirit. It is precisely when scientific thinking achieves the most outstanding, the most significant, and the most accurate results in its field that it proves incapable of doing so. And there is a historical necessity for spiritual-scientific research to stand alongside natural science in modern times, but with the same seriousness with which natural science itself proceeds.

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