{"product_id":"the-fundamental-social-law-rudolf-steiner-on-the-work-of-the-individual-and-the-spirit-of-community-9780880106542","title":"The Fundamental Social Law: Rudolf Steiner on the Work of the Individual and the Spirit of Community","description":"The healthy social life is found\u003cbr\u003e When in the mirror of each human being\u003cbr\u003e The whole community finds its reflection\u003cbr\u003e And when in the community\u003cbr\u003e The virtue of each one is living.\u003cp\u003eRudolf Steiner understood that human social, ethical, and moral development lagged far behind what had been achieved in knowledge, science, and technology; and that what human beings had achieved in these fields rested on what caused social and moral life to be untenable for so many, namely, the universal rule of egoism and self-interest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1905, a historic year of political and economic crises, Rudolf Steiner formulated what he called the basic \"social axiom\" or \"the cosmic law of work\" The well-being of an entire group of individuals who work together is the greater, the less individuals claim the income resulting from their own accomplishments for themselves, that is, the more they contribute this income to their fellow workers and the more their own needs are met not through their own efforts but through the efforts of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderlying this \"fundamental social law\" is the seminal realization that human social reality pivots on the question of work and compensation. Does one work for oneself, for one's salary? Or does one work for others, the community or larger society? For Rudolf Steiner, it was critical to understand that work should be a free deed. In other words, work and income should be completely separated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this profound work, Peter Selg traces how, at the end of the Great War, with Steiner's tireless efforts for the threefold movement, this fundamental social-spiritual insight moved into the center of his activities as an overriding practical and spiritual concern, rephrased as the \"motto of social ethics,\" and deepened and filled with the full reality of Christ's teachings and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in a just, equitable, healthy, and spirit-based social future should read \u003ci\u003eThe Fundamental Social Law\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelg, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBorn 1963\u003c\/b\u003e, Stuttgart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1986-1993\u003c\/b\u003e Study of human medicine at the University of Witten\/Herdecke, in Berlin and Zurich. Doctoral thesis: Attempt to systematize Rudolf Steiner's human physiological ideas. An analysis of the entire lecture and written work (Witten\/Herdecke 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1993-2000\u003c\/b\u003e Further training as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Senior physician in the psychiatric department for adolescents and young adults at the Herdecke Community Hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2000-2002\u003c\/b\u003e Research associate at the Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology (Freiburg).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2002-2006\u003c\/b\u003e Head physician at the Ita Wegman Clinic Arlesheim (adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy); since 2006 establishment and management of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Anthroposophical Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince 2007\u003c\/b\u003e professorship for medical anthropology and ethics at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Alfter near Bonn); teaching in the Studium fundamentale and in the accompanying studies in anthroposophic medicine at the University\/Witten-Herdecke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince 2020, \u003c\/b\u003eco-leader of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Section of the School of Spiritual Science (Goetheanum)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steiner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461501456658,"sku":"9780880106542","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b675380e-ce52-4ea7-9630-d92af01942f6.jpg?v=1730069141","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fundamental-social-law-rudolf-steiner-on-the-work-of-the-individual-and-the-spirit-of-community-9780880106542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}