University at the Threshold
University at the Threshold "A threshold is a juncture of the path unlike any other, although many events may have anticipated it. The Threshold demands a change of heart, a turning around in the…
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University at the Threshold
"A threshold is a juncture of the path unlike any other, although many events may have anticipated it. The Threshold demands a change of heart, a turning around in the seat of consciousness" (from the introduction).Basing this practical study of human care for the world around us, Nigel Hoffmann takes us to a threshold beyond which lies a true science of living form. What occurs there is the realization that what is beyond is utterly different from what has already been passed through.
The Goethean approach--a living form that unites science and art--is not an alternative to contemporary natural science, but complements it. Care, he says, springs from the whole human being--the thinking, heart, and will--and is implicit in the scientific method of conscious inner participation in nature, which derives from the work of the poet and scientist Goethe. Artistic practice, says