'What It Means To Be Pro-Human' video series based on "The Philosophy Of Freedom" by Rudolf Steiner. 44 short videos, approx 2.5 hours total viewing time.
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Video script based on Chapter 12 Moral Imagination (Darwinism And Ethics)
Moral Intuition
Ethical action depends on developing three abilities; Moral Intuition, Moral Imagination, and Moral Technique. Moral Intuition is the ability to intuitively select an ethical principle that will be applied to a particular life situation. A free spirit acts according to his impulses—that is, according to intuitions selected by thinking from his whole world of ideas.
Unfree Spirit - Recall Past Idea
The reason why an unfree spirit singles out a particular intuition from his world of ideas, in order to make it the basis of a deed, lies in his past experiences. Before making a decision he recalls what someone else has done or recommended in a similar situation, or what God has commanded to be done in such a case, and so on. Then he acts according to these recollections.
Free Spirit - Original Decision
The free spirit is not bound by prior conditions. He makes a completely original decision. He cares as little about what others have done, as about what they have ordered be done in such a case. He is influenced by purely ideal (logical) reasons to select a particular principle from the sum total of his concepts, and to translate it in action. What he accomplishes will have a very specific perceptible content. The selected principle will be realized in a particular concrete action.
Unfree Spirit - Obey Instructions
The motives of the unfree spirit are present in his mind from the start in the form of ideas. When he intends to do something he does it in the way he has seen others do it or he obeys the instructions he receives in each separate case. That is why authority is most effective through examples, by conveying very specific actions for the guidance of the unfree spirit.
Laws concerning what the unfree spirit should do must be given in specific concrete form: Clean the walk in front of your door! Pay your taxes in this amount at that tax office here named! And so on. The laws forbidding actions are given a conceptual form: You should not steal! You should not commit adultery! These laws, too, only influence the unfree spirit by means of a concrete idea; for example, the idea of the corresponding secular punishment, or of the torments of conscience, or of eternal damnation, and so on.
