{"id":48039,"date":"2023-06-02T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T12:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=48039"},"modified":"2023-06-02T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:11:39","slug":"what-does-steiner-mean-by-intuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/what-does-steiner-mean-by-intuition\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Steiner Mean by &#8216;Intuition&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rudolf Steiner sharply distinguishes the spiritual meaning of the term \u2018intuition\u2019 from its everyday usage. If one generally associates the word with a somewhat unclear, unconscious, and emotional intuition, then intuition in anthroposophy is comparable to the clear, pure concept of a mathematical theorem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Intuition\u2019 is the first supersensory form of cognition mentioned by Rudolf Steiner, in the introductions to Goethe&#8217;s scientific writings (contained in GA 1.) Goethe&#8217;s concept of intuition leads back to two thinkers: Kant and Spinoza. Rudolf Steiner explains how Goethe \u2013 in contrast to Kant \u2013 developed an intuitive science \u201cby looking at an always creative nature.\u201d In the essay \u201cAnschauende Urteilskraft\u201d (Perceptive Power of Judgment) Goethe takes his starting point from Kant. According to Kant \u2013 and Goethe \u2013 \u2018intuition\u2019 is understanding that has an intuitive character. Kant thinks of an understanding that goes from the \u2018intellectus archetypus\u2019, \u201cfrom the synthetic general, the view of a whole as such,\u201d to the individual parts, observing and integrating them. Goethe elaborates this intuitive concept methodically and practically. Steiner explains how crucial Spinoza&#8217;s concept of intuition was for Goethe in explaining his own manner and method. For Spinoza, intuition is the highest kind of knowledge there is. For Goethe, intuition is the form of cognition through which the living and the essential in organic nature is grasped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong> Rudolf Steiner. \u201cIntuition \u2013 the Focal Point of Thinking.\u201d Ed. by Edward de Boer, Basel 2014, p. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Eliza Rozeboom<br><strong>Graphic<\/strong> Sofia Lismont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudolf Steiner sharply distinguishes the spiritual meaning of the term \u2018intuition\u2019 from its everyday usage. If one generally associates the word with a somewhat unclear, unconscious, and emotional intuition, then intuition in anthroposophy is comparable to the clear, pure concept of a mathematical theorem. \u2018Intuition\u2019 is the first supersensory form of cognition mentioned by Rudolf Steiner, in the introductions to Goethe&#8217;s scientific writings (contained in GA 1.) Goethe&#8217;s concept of intuition leads back to two thinkers: Kant and Spinoza. Rudolf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9174,"featured_media":47598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8848,8793],"tags":[11333,8819],"class_list":["post-48039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","category-philosophy","tag-2023-20-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}