American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner by McDermott, Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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CONTENTS PREFACE FOREWORD INTRODUCTION 1. HEARING STEINER'S ANTHROPOSOPHY IN EMERSON'S PROPHETIC VOICE

Freedom and Individuality Intuitive Selfhood Ethical Individualism and Free Deeds Trust in Intuitive Thinking Practitioner Consciousness: From True to Valid Intuition: Building with Knowledge

2. DELIBERATE LIVES, DELIBERATE LIVING

4. WILLIAM JAMES AND RUDOLF STEINER

James's Pragmatic Approach to Religious and Psychic Experience Steiner's Spiritual Science Concluding Comparisons and Contrasts

3. CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE AND RUDOLF STEINER

C. S. PEIRCE: LIFE AND WORK RUDOLF STEINER: LIFE AND WORK PEIRCE'S PHILOSOPHICAL SOURCES RUDOLF STEINER'S PHILOSOPHICAL SOURCES PEIRCE'S EPISTEMOLOGY, METAPHYSICS, AND COSMOLOGY STEINER'S EPISTEMOLOGY, METAPHYSICS, AND COSMOLOGY

5. JOSIAH ROYCE AND RUDOLF STEINER

General Survey of Royce's Mature Ethics: 1912–1916 THREE INSIGHTS OF THE SECOND MAGNITUDE Family Solidarity Mediation FOUR INSIGHTS OF THE FIRST MAGNITUDE THREE LEADING ETHICAL IDEAS THREE SPECIES OF LOYALTY ETHICS OF THE FITTING HOPE COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF ROYCE AND STEINER CONVERGENCES IN THE MAIN AREAS OF PHILOSOPHY In Theory of Knowledge In Their View of the Human Person In Metaphysics In Ethics

6. STEINER'S ANTHROPOSOPHY AND WHITEHEAD'S PHILOSOPHY

I. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN STEINER'S AND WHITEHEAD'S POSITIONS II. WHITEHEADIAN SUPPORT FOR SOME OF STEINER'S “OCCULT” NOTIONS A. Occult Qualities and Powers B. Extrasensory Perception C. The “Akashic Record” D. Divine Influence E. Life after Death III. WHITEHEADIAN BASES FOR WITHHOLDING AFFIRMATION FROM SOME OF STEINER'S IDEAS IV. STEINER'S SUGGESTION OF A SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE APPROPRIATE TO WHITEHEADIANS

7 JOHN DEWEY'S PROJECT FOR “SAVING THE APPEARANCES”

8 RUDOLF STEINER'S ACTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY AND FEMINIST THOUGHT IN AMERICA

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