Earthly, Transcendental, & Spiritual Logic -

From Husserl's Phenomenology to Steiner's Anthroposophy

By: Scott Elliot Hicks

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This first full-length book on phenomenology and anthroposophy examines the problems of crossing from Husserl's technique of directly viewing concepts and essences to the full experience of crossing the threshold by means of spiritualizing thinking in the anthroposophical sense. It covers all of the places where Steiner mentions Husserl in his collected works and the early part of the book functions as an introduction to Husserl's phenomenology for the general reader. It demonstrates how to begin in everyday consciousness and then pass into the realm of viewing ideas or essences following Husserl's techniques of imaginative variation and reduction. In the later chapters, there are a variety of studies which lead the reader from everyday consciousness and perception into the phenomenological reduction, and then over the chasm into the real life of living thinking in the etheric world. This demonstration shows that there is a huge difference between phenomenological reflection and actual living thinking or moral intuition. There are also several studies of logic itself which cover all of the transitions from representation to essence to spiritual activity. These studies penetrate into what happens on the concept planes and the etheric world during the processes of thinking, judging, inferring, and creating logical conclusions. The book also contains access to several new spiritual scientific creations and bridges which transform some of the basic logical laws and forms into anthroposophical living pulses and elements in the spiritual world. It therefore contains several doorways for the active reader to enter into the new work in the spiritual world and all that such an approach entails. Contents - Chapter 1 – Basic Introduction to Steiner and Husserl Chapter 2 – To See or to Be Seen? What is Ideation, Eidetic Seeing, or the Viewing of Essences? Chapter 3 – The Dying Light: Intuition, Meaning-Fulfillment, and Noema Chapter 4 – Is the World Imagining Me? The Riddle of Imaginative Variation Chapter 5 – From Earthly Logic to Spiritual Imagination: What is a Proposition? Chapter 6 – From Nature to the New Event: Studies in Spiritualizing Logic Chapter 7 – Anthroposophical Apophantics: Spiritualizing Judgment and Logical Validity through the Event Chapter 8 – Into the Unconscious: Devotion and Active Forgetting as Preparation for Inspiration Chapter 9 – Inference and Consequence: Logical Laws and Spiritual Laws Chapter 10 – The Riddle of the Transcendental I and its Possible Immortality in Husserl Chapter 11 – The Metamorphosis of Judgments Past: from Husserl’s States of Affairs to the Spiritual World Conclusion – The Limits of Husserlian Phenomenology & Some Little Keys