In 1922 Rudolf Steiner contributed to a conference at Manchester College, Oxford on the subject of spiritual values in education and social life. As part of this conference he gave three lectures that introduced to an English audience his ideas for a remodelling of modern social life. He sought to show how the basic concept, that society has three aspects - cultural life, political life and economic life - and that these need to be autonomous yet integrated, is not only true to the facts of human evolution, but is essential to an understanding of today's seemingly intractable educational and social problems. When first shared, Steiner's ideas received little attention, for humanity, through the Treaty of Versailles, had just turned down the road of economic nationalism, while in the East communism had been newly introduced. Today the divisions created at that time are being subsumed by a triumphant capitalism. But capitalism is itself full of contradictions and everywhere one can see that social life as a whole cannot function on a basis of its unrestrained techniques. A wider paradigm is needed. These lectures are published with a view to giving Steiner's ideas a new hearing, that they might play their part in the development of a more inclusive and more equitable society.

Paperback pamphlet, 56 pp.

ISBN: 094822921-7