Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: Thinking

  • Rudolf Steiner on Consciousness

    This is one of several posts which are based on my reading of The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. For other posts, see below. What happens in consciousness when we face another person? Rudolf Steiner writes: What, then, do I have before me when I face another person? I look at what is immediately apparent. …it…

  • Retrospective 2024-44

    This is a retrospective of week 44, 2024 (2024-10-21–2024-11-03). This week I’ve finished reading Toward Wholeness: Rudolf Steiner Education in America by Mary C. Richards and The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. I wrote the following posts during the week: I think Rudolf Steiner focuses too much on the role of conceptual thinking in…

  • Rudolf Steiner on Thinking, Feeling, and Willing

    This is one of several posts which are based on my reading of The Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner. For other posts, see below. Rudolf Steiner writes about the three factors of life—thinking, feeling, and willing—in the addendum to the 1918 edition of The Philosophy of Freedom. I find it difficult to step into…

  • Retrospective 2024-17

    This is a retrospective of week 17, 2024 (2024-04-22–2024-04-28). I’ve spent the week looking into Forrest Landry’s work. This means that I’ve continued reading An Immanent Metaphysics and listened to some podcasts. Here is a post from earlier this week which is based on one of the podcasts. Below are some additional quotes from two…

  • Craig Holdrege on Living Thinking

    I want to show that it is possible to move beyond object thinking and develop what I will call living thinking. Living thinking is a participatory way of knowing that transcends the dichotomies of man-nature, subject-object, or mind-matter, which are so ingrained in the Western mind and form the bedrock of object thinking. One of…

  • Zettelkasten: A Thinking Tool

    Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) was a sociologists. All in all, he wrote 50 books and 550 articles. The number of publications is unprecedented in contemporary sociology.1 The large number of publications would have been impossible without his filing system (Zettelkasten, or anteckningslåda in Swedish).2 Of course, I do not think of all this on my own;…

  • David Bohm on thought processes

    Thought processes have a striking resemblance to quantum processes. David Bohm writes in his book on Quantum Theory that: If a person tries to observe what he is thinking about at the very moment that he is reflecting on a particular subject, it is generally agreed that he introduces unpredictable and uncontrollable changes in the…

  • New orders reflect new values

    The world crumbles. New orders are emerging. Conditions are getting worse and worse. There is less and less to hold on to. There are fewer givens to assume. How to live? What to do? How to organize? The world is falling apart. Fear deepens as necessary orders are lost. Events force rapid reassessment of everything,…

  • Posts on David Bohm

    David Bohm is one of the most interesting thinkers that I’ve encountered during all years of reading. Here’s an overview of posts where I mention David Bohm in one way or another: 2018 Organizing retrospective 126 — A retrospective of 2018. Book Review: The Supreme Art of Dialogue by Anthony Blake Book Review: Mind and…

  • Retrospektiv 2019-12

    Detta är en återblick på veckan. Arbetsplatser som möjliggör tänkande Under veckan har jag läst Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought av Jenny Quillien, som under sex års tid arbetade tillsammans med Christopher Alexander. Jenny Quillien skriver (min översättning): När det gäller platser för arbete, känner de flesta av oss en brist; det finns…