Textual analysis?
From: Steinerhead
Date: Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:03 am
Subject: Textual analysis?
From the WC list, you can read the entire
exchange at [this
link]:
Jakob:
The same thing could be said for Steiner's early philosophical
works, which both he, and many anthroposophists, consider to
be absolutely foundational for an understanding of anthroposophy.
Peter S:
I think that idea is silly. It doesn't stand up to the briefest
textual analysis.
Mike:
Well, that's a clincher for me.
If I were to do a purely "textual analysis"
of Rudolf Steiner's writings, I would have to be a robot. "Textual
analysis" in it's purest form then, would not be influenced
by the inner experiences of human beings. Perhaps if we as human
beings could aspire to the ideal pure "textual analysis,"
we could solve the stupid problems of racism, or war. Ah but
alas, most of us were cursed with a feeling life, an inner experiential
life, that overwhelms our ability to do pure "textual analysis."
And then of course, if any of those inner life experiences ever
started to make sense to us, well, this complicates the problem
even more....
Oh well, even Mr. Spok failed on occasion.
Maybe instead of "thinking with the power
of Love, in spiritual form," I should try to "think
with the power of a supercomputer in pure materialistic form."
Text and Analysis
Mike Helsher
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From: Tarjei Straume
Date: Sun Dec 14, 2003 9:32 am
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] Textual analysis?
At 18:03 14.12.2003, Mike wrote:
If I were to do a purely "textual
analysis" of Rudolf Steiner's writings, I would have to
be a robot. "Textual analysis" in it's purest form
then, would not be influenced by the inner experiences of human
beings.
Anyone interested in Staudenmaier's "textual
analysis" of Steiner's works should go to Sune's excellent
page on the subject at
http://hem.passagen.se/thebee/comments/plans1.html
Scroll down to the heading "Medieval
Witch Hunting and Mythologies" and further down to "For
some comments on the "Protocol of Steiner" mythology".
The links provided here are very interesting.
Tarjei Straume
http://www.uncletaz.com/anthrocritics.html
"The worst readers are
those who proceed like plundering soldiers: they pick up a few
things they use, soil and confuse the rest, and blaspheme the
whole." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Mixed
Opinions and Maxims
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