Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/367/en

The point of departure of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophical spiritual science is "the human being." To his essential nature in the context of the world, these questions are directed: What is the development out of his essential origin in the spirit — what are the idea-contexts that make him capable of acting in accordance with his nature across all spheres of life — what are the paths toward self-knowledge and knowledge of the world into the future? Once, human beings were not yet so "clever" as they are today, but they were wise. They experienced themselves as a microcosm, bearing within themselves in the small everything that in the large spiritually and essentially fills the macrocosm. The scientific intellectualism of the modern era places itself over against the sense-perceptible world, dissects it into parts, reflects these in representations — and in doing so excludes the very one who asks, thinks, feels, and wills: the human being himself. The gaze of the spiritual researcher, by contrast, is directed toward the one who knows, toward the essential nature of the human being. What reveals itself to him there in supersensible cognition throws a clear light on what, in the macrocosmic sense, underlies nature and the cosmic periphery as a being-effective principle — sense-perceptible in the widest sense. The findings of spiritual-scientific research presented in the Agriculture Course connect with the natural-scientific