TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Fritz C. A. Koelln

Preface to the 1923 Edition

Preface to the 1918 Edition

Preface to the 1914 Edition

Part I

I Guiding Thoughts on the Method of Presentation

II The World Conception of the Greek Thinkers

III Thought Life from the Beginning of the Christian Era to John Scotus Erigena

IV The World Conceptions of the Middle Ages

V The World Conceptions of the Modern Age of Thought Evolution

VI The Age of Kant and Goethe

VII The Classics of World and Life Conceptions.

VIII Reactionary World Conceptions

IX The Radical World Conceptions

Part II

Introductory Remarks to the 1914 Edition

I The Struggle Over the Spirit

II Darwinism and World Conception

III The World as Illusion

IV Echoes of the Kantian Mode of Conception

V World Conceptions of Scientific Factuality

VI Modern Idealistic World Conceptions .

VII Modern Man and His World Conception

VIII A Brief Outline of an Approach to Anthroposophy

Index