Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work: 1919-1922 - Social Threefolding and the Waldorf School

Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work: 1919-1922 - Social Threefolding and the Waldorf School
ISBN-10
1621481948
ISBN-13
9781621481942
Series
Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
308
Language
English
Published
2017-07-31
Publisher
Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work
Author
Peter Selg

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"Try to become one with the world--that will be the best and most important 'program.' It is something that cannot be contained in statutes but needs to burn in our hearts as a flame." --Rudolf Steiner Following the widespread destruction of World War I, Europe in 1918 was faced with political, economic, and social chaos, especially in Germany. In volume 5 of his seven-volume biography of Rudolf Steiner, Peter Selg focuses on the three years following the "Great War" and Steiner's efforts to help restructure society in a way that might avoid a recurrence of such a terrible calamity in the future. He saw the root sociopolitical and spiritual causes of the devastation and sought to change the flawed worldviews and impulses that led to the hubris behind the World War. Rudolf Steiner thus began to concentrate on various means to renew and invigorate society, both through immediate measures--especially in his plan for a "threefold social order"--and through the new form of pedagogy that came to fruition with the Waldorf education movement. Steiner saw that a renewed form of education was necessary to the development of peaceful and healthy social conditions in the future. This education was intended to help children grow into responsible, free, and imaginative adults. This was a time of intense work for Rudolf Steiner, including a full schedule of travel and lectures, reaching out to political leaders, training teachers for the new schools, and working with theologians and ministers toward religious renewal. -- -- -- -- -- -- "At the end of World War I, with the German revolution in progress, Rudolf Steiner was in Dornach, working on the building and giving countless lectures--in particular on contemporary issues. It was important, he pointed out, to "observe the forces of the time" and to come to a real understanding of what had happened over the last four years in Central Europe, in other words, to gain deeper insights into the recent past in preparation for taking the necessary steps in future. "But few enough people are interested in even attaining an objective judgment on what has actually happened. What 'actually happened' remained for Rudolf Steiner not only a modern tragedy, but also 'the greatest calamity in the history of the world, which--by the way--is far from being over.'" --Peter Selg (from the beginning chapter)

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