Human Development / 1 credit
The online Human Development course is based on studying and working with lectures given by Rudolf Steiner in 1919. These preparatory lectures were given to the teachers of the original Waldorf School in Stuttgart, the first School to be founded on the work of Rudolf Steiner. They are not, however, only concerned with education; they contain Steiner's fundamental views on the psychology of man.
Steiner's psychology differs from all other psychologies in that it takes into account not only the forces playing into man from the past, but also states of consciousness and being which will not be realized till the far distant future, but which are already affecting his character and destiny. It is in the balancing out of the past with the future that man escapes determinism and finds his true nature as a free being. In this lies the importance of these lectures. All students of psychology, and not only teachers, will find in them new light on the absorbing riddle of the human being.
All new things have to find their unique vocabulary and the reader will find some unfamiliar terms in these lectures. But as Steiner's picture of the human being unfolds, they will gradually assume shape and meaning.
Steiner's psychology differs from all other psychologies in that it takes into account not only the forces playing into man from the past, but also states of consciousness and being which will not be realized till the far distant future, but which are already affecting his character and destiny. It is in the balancing out of the past with the future that man escapes determinism and finds his true nature as a free being. In this lies the importance of these lectures. All students of psychology, and not only teachers, will find in them new light on the absorbing riddle of the human being.
All new things have to find their unique vocabulary and the reader will find some unfamiliar terms in these lectures. But as Steiner's picture of the human being unfolds, they will gradually assume shape and meaning.
Human Development / 1 credit
Lesson 1: Foreword/Lectures I, II, III
Lesson 2: Lectures IV, V, VI
Lesson 3: Lectures VII, VIII, IX
Lesson 4: Lectures X, XI, XII
Lesson 5: Lectures XIII, XIV
Lesson 6: Final Paper
Lesson 2: Lectures IV, V, VI
Lesson 3: Lectures VII, VIII, IX
Lesson 4: Lectures X, XI, XII
Lesson 5: Lectures XIII, XIV
Lesson 6: Final Paper