the ‘threefolding of the social organism’ and from other ideas from Rudolf Steiner? How is his interpretation of the motto of the French Revolution to be put to use, which he even formulated as a lecture theme: Freedom for the spirit! Equality for rights! Fraternity for economic life!
least they do not prevent these.
• What can be done to allow the spiritual-cultural life to be as free as possible from state interference? More freedom for schools, universities, theatre?!
• After the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe named human dignity as the irreducible standard for social justice in the Hartz-IV verdict of February 9, 2010, we can reflect on whether what is meant by inviolable human dignity – according to Article 1 of the Constitution – is the ‘I’ as an individuality.
• How can economic life be left as free as possible from the state to configure itself? Or is the problem a bigger one now, such that through the omnipotence of the economy (including banks, labor unions and global corporations) the state becomes too dependent on the economy? • What has come to realization in recent years of the ideas on social threefolding, for instance through the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, or through the new federal constitution of 1999, through the states’ code of practice or through the evolution of society? In many modern states, there are in the meantime constitutional articles that guarantee „freedom for the spirit“ and „equality for the rights realm“, and that call for „fraternity“ – at
• What is the relationship between the rights realm and karma? The judge in a lawsuit cannot take into consideration the karma of the parties involved. But does he or she create karmic relationships by means of his/her rulings?
• Eighty years ago, Rudolf Steiner recognized and named three great enemies of knowledge in the present time: 1) fear of the spirit; 2) the desire to scoff at spiritual being; 3) the slackness of comfort-level thinking: the human being wants to have everything reel by before him as though in a movie (said before the invention of television!). Only courage for knowledge, fire for knowledge and creative knowledge can help us face these enemies of knowledge in our time. We read these words from Steiner with a jolt today: What consequence do we draw from them for our actions?
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