Artistic Sensitivity as a Spiritual Approach to Knowing Life and the World, Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner CW161

Today’s orthodox notions of science―which is to say, of knowing―are exceedingly narrow; they posit, implicitly or otherwise, that the only knowledge possible, if any, is that of the physical world. But the skeleton key to unlocking the door, behind which lies the root of the problems and difficulties of our age, and thus their solution, is to be able to fully answer this question: What is it to know something? This question lies at the foundation of spiritual science. Rudolf Steiner had first to solve it for himself, pointing the way for others to do the same (in, for example, his Philosophy of Freedom), long before he could give such lectures as these. Rudolf Steiner’s work and words, still largely undiscovered as compared to their value for humanity, continue to point the way toward a different path―a way of knowing that encompasses the fullness, the breadth and depth of life and the worlds we inhabit. This knowing―which is to say, science―does not ignore or even contradict the narro