著者

小林 裕明

出版者

新潟大学大学院現代社会文化研究科

雑誌

現代社会文化研究 = 現代社会文化研究 (ISSN:13458485)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, pp.89-106, 2010-03

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R. Steiner's The Philosophy of Freedom(die Philosophie der Freiheit) puts moral imagination (die moralische Phantasie) at its center. This moral imagination is the intuition of individual idea. By this, the human is freedom, and individual. In this ideal intuition, the idea is mediated through the representation (Vorstellung) to the perception (Wahrnehmung), in such a way that the representation mediates as a motive between the feeling (Gefuhl) and the perception. Under this structure of the duple mediation, the idea and the action are mediated and conjoined through the motive according to the moral idea. Without the unity of idea and action, it isn't in the right, and the action without the mediation through the motive isn't free. In this way, freedom is all human self-development of (individual) Idea which corresponds to love. This structure of moral imagination necessarily leads to the weltanschauung of triple worlds, material-, soul- and spiritual world in his later works on the science of the spirit (Geisteswissenschaft). Because individual idea that is the core of human freedom is true actual only as the unity of these triple worlds, namely as the self that penetrates samsaras. The content of moral imagination is the necessity of samsaras (karma)=idea of the individual, and what is more, the idea of the nation and the age that flows in it. On the other hand, the form of moral imagination is faith. By faith, the human is freedom, and by freedom, the human loves the others.