 Towards
Social Renewal
Rethinking the Basis of Society
by Rudolf Steiner
In Towards Social Renewal,
Rudolf Steiner offers a re-evaluation of our ideas
about the nature and organizational patterns of human
society at a fundamental level. He introduces a perspective
which will appear foreign to our habits of thought, and may
even appear too idealistic where those habits have made us
cynical in regard to anything new in society. The model he
proposes, which has become known as the Threefold Social
Order, does not grow out of the traditional left-wing vs.
right-wing struggle which has been collaring social progress for
centuries, but derives rather from the fundamentals of human
nature itself, and these as understood as an expression of
divine or cosmic organization. In societies which
preceded the "thinking" societies, these principles where felt
instinctively and such "felt" wisdom guided the organization
of their communities (as well as all other aspects of their
lives).
As we have grown
out of this felt wisdom and its image consciousness, into a
more independent state with clear conceptual consciousness, we
have also lost the guiding "strings" which directed us in a
moral and organized fashion. We now have to cope with
discovering these primary organizational principles through
our own efforts, efforts which are challenged by the
confusion and chaos of contemporary unregulated social trends, and
by the temptation to abuse
class and economics for personal advantage.
Steiner is careful not give a detailed prescription for the
structures and the running of such a society but indicates the fundamental
organizational arrangement which must be observed if it is not to
deviate from the life giving principles on which it is based.
This is an
important book for those who feel the need and are willing to
re-think fundamentals on the nature of human society.
Trans. M.
Barton (GA23); 135pp
Rudolf Steiner Press
ISBN:
978 1 85584 072 0; paperback
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