Three Essays on Haeckel and Karma |
 | Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Category: Book
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Pages: 232
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Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0766138488
Dewey Decimal Number: 500
EAN: 9780766138483
ASIN: 0766138488
Publication Date: March 2003
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1914. Contains three essays written by Rudolf Steiner entitled The Working of Karma; Haeckel and His Opponents (1900); and Haeckel, "The Riddle of the Universe" and Theosophy, which was originally delivered as a lecture.
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An intellectual feast! October 25, 2005
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The essays on Haeckel are extremely interesting when you take his views and Steiner's together.
Haeckel was influenced both by the German idealistic tradition and by the works of Darwin. After reading Origin of Species, Haeckel became one of the more prolific and vociferous supporters of evolution, but was less supportive of natural selection as the mechanism by which evolution occurred. Haeckel was certainly an evolutionist but less so a Darwinian. Haeckel is one of many thinkers who believed that all species were historical entities (lineages) but did not share Darwin's enthusiasm for natural selection as the main mechanism for generating the diversity of the biological world. This is in direct conflict with Steiners views of a spiritual science or Anthroposophy.
The other lectures on karma and theosophy are also edifying in nature. A good overall read!
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