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Some additional threefolding materials that didn’t quite fit into the original “starter pack.”

"Republican — Not Democratic" by Ernst Lehrs

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A short description of the organizational form that Rudolf Steiner gave the teachers at the first Waldorf School.

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"Republican Academies" by Francis Gladstone

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A helpful compendium concerning the organizational form that Rudolf Steiner gave to the first Waldorf School.

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"How Can Today's Poverty Of Soul Be Overcome?" by Rudolf Steiner

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This lecture was given in 1916, a year before Steiner began speaking about social threefolding. In it he touches on what he calls the three great ideals of our epoch — social understanding, freedom of thought, and spiritual science. His thoughts concerning social understanding are especially interesting, as they point to the kind of practical psychology (of temperaments and dispositions) that he develops further in relation to the field of education. All in all, an important contribution to threefolding literature. [This lecture can be found in the book "The Connection between the Living and the Dead."]

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"The Central Question Of Economic Life" by Rudolf Steiner

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This public lecture given in Oslo, Norway, is a fantastic introduction to threefolding and economics. In it, Steiner addresses how to think about social and economic science - how not to get caught in abstract utopian thinking, but how to think realistically (including the work of associations in forming valid economic judgements). He looks at the tension between collectivism and individualism; the “objective value” of commodities and the problem of treating land and capital as such; the relation between threefolding and the human organism; how we should understand the administration of the three sectors; the threefoldness of the economy (capital/land, labor, association); and many other topics.

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