Mystics of the Renaissance

meaning critic offered the advice: “Before
he goes on reforming further and gives
his Philosophy of Freedom original: Die Philosophie der Freiheit (1894). This is Steiner's most significant philosophical work, which argues that human beings can become free through a specific kind of thinking that connects with the spiritual world. to the world,
he should be pressingly advised first to
work himself through to an understanding
of these two philosophers [Hume David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher known for his skepticism, particularly regarding causality and the nature of the "self." and
Kant Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a definitive figure in German philosophy; his "Critique of Pure Reason" argued that human knowledge is limited to appearances rather than things as they are in themselves.].” The critic unfortunately knows
only so much as he is himself able to read
in Kant and Hume; practically, there-
fore, he simply advises me to learn to see
no more in these thinkers than he him-
self sees. When I have attained that, he
will be satisfied with me. Then when
my Philosophy and Freedom This appears to be a variation or typographical error for the aforementioned Philosophy of Freedom. appeared, I
was found to be as much in need of cor-
rection as the most ignorant beginner.
This I received from a gentleman who
probably nothing else impelled to the
writing of books except that he had not
understood innumerable foreign ones.
He gravely informs me that I should have