What If Charles Darwin Was Only Half Right?
Considering Rudolf Steiner's rather unconventional ideas, maybe Charles Darwin had only half the truth about evolution. This was a very small part of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), a very complex Austrian social philosopher and mystic. I want to talk about Rudolf Steiner's ideas about reincarnation and the evolution of souls. Such an evolution is not the same as the evolution of physical bodies or of physical people (and other living creatures). It's in effect, a second evolution. And,for that matter, philosophy itself. If he was right then to place his ideas side-by-side with Darwin's Theory of Evolution - whether you agree with Darwin or not - offers us an extraordinary new dimension to our ideas on the whole question of evolution. And if you ever had reason to doubt, or disagree with, Darwin's ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest, then here is more material to question, at least, whether he had "the whole truth and nothing bu...