Foreword

Introduction

METHODOLOGY AND SCIENCE

1. A Historical Review of the Question
2. Methodological Conceptions
3. Science and Philosophy
4. Science and the Study of Nature
5. Percept and Concept
6. Directions of Thought which accompany Anthroposophy
7. The Subject of Cognition in the Methodology of Science

I Evolutionism

1. Introductory Remarks
2. The System-Objects and their Archetypal Phenomena
3. The Categories of Development
4. Consciousness, Being, Form

II The Evolutionary Cycle of the World as a System

1. The Human Being as a System
2. The Three Stages of the Metamorphosis of Consciousness
3. The Christology of Dialectics
4. The Three Logoi and the Beginning of the World
5. From the Beginning of the World to the Aeon of the Earth
6. Man within the Structure of World-Unity

III The Seven-Membered System of the World and of Thinking

1. The Esotericism of the Mathematical Method of Thinking
2. ‘Counting’ Man as an Evolutionary Being
3. The Three Logoi and their Interrelations
4. Manvantara and Pralaya
5. The Macro-Anthropos
6. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Evolution
7. The Dialectic of the Macrocosm
8. The Structure of Seven-Membered Thinking