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additions seem necessary. The only passages I have re-
written are those in which, a quarter century ago, I ex-
pressed myself poorly. (Only people of ill will would take
these changes as proof that I have changed my fundamen-
tal conviction).
The book has now been out of print for many years. I
feel that the same things need to be said today as twenty-
five years ago; nevertheless, I hesitated long over the
completion of this new edition. I asked myself again and
again whether I ought, in this or that passage, to confront
the numerous philosophical views that have come to
light since the appearance of the first edition. In recent
years, involvement in purely spiritual-scientific re-
searches prevented me from doing this in the way I
would wish. Yet I have convinced myself, after the most
thorough survey I could make of current philosophical
work, that such discussion does not belong here, tempt-
ing as it might be in itself. What seemed necessary to say
about the latest philosophical tendencies, from the point
of view taken inIntuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A
Philosophy of Freedom, can be found in the second vol-
ume of myRiddles of Philosophy.*^1
April, 1918
Rudolf Steiner
1.The Riddles of Philosophy (Spring Valley, NY: Anthroposophic Press,
1973).
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*All footnotes are the publisher’s notes, unless they are identified as
the author’s notes.
