In collaboration with Kate Reese Hurd, we have written a book entitled The Three-Membered Organization of the Social Organism In the Context of the 21st Century and America and its Individual and Group Realization.
Yes, it’s a long title!
It should be noted that the intended audience for this book are people familiar with Anthroposophy and particularly the writings/lecture Rudolf Steiner gave in the early 1900’s on social renewal.
This is a preview of the book, which includes the following sections:
- Preface
- Introductions
- Chapters 1 and 2
- About the Authors
If you are interested in a PDF of the complete November draft of this book, please leave a message on this post.
The full table of contents (apologies for the underscores, getting WordPress to indent is not simple!):
Introduction by Marc Clifton 7
Introduction by Kate Reese Hurd 9
What is The Social Organism (The Social Order)? 12
Fundamental Concepts of the Social Organism 15
__Autonomy, Independence, and Interdependence 17
__The Premises of The Three-Membered Organization 20
__Developing a Healthy Social Life and its Organization 24
____From Unconscious to Conscious 24
____Healthy Thinking, Feeling and Willing in the Context of Mental Health 25
____Healthy Thinking, Feeling and Willing in the Context of Spiritual Science 27
____Free and Ethical Action 28
____What is a Healthy Social Organization? 36
__The Critical Role of Administration 38
Characteristics of The Spiritual/Cultural Domain 40
____Bias 42
__Carrying out Justice, Adjudication 45
Characteristics of Rights Domain 46
__Taxation to Support the Rights Domain 53
__The Effectiveness of the Rights Domain 54
__Rights Within the Economic and Cultural Domains 55
Characteristics of The Economic Domain 56
____Land 58
____Labor 59
______The Service Sector 60
______Intangible Commodities 61
__The Entanglement of Labor and Wage/Salary 67
__The Decoupling of Commodity Price, Labor and Wage/Salary: A Thought Experiment 69
__Debt and its Effect on Wage/Salary and Product Price 72
__Unsecured and Secured Debt 74
__Influences between the Economic Domain on the Other Two Domains 78
__Replacing Human Labor with Machine Labor 80
The Primary Types of Capitalism 85
__Entrepreneurial Capitalism 87
____Tuition 90
____Healthcare 92
__Toward True Social Renewal 99
Individual and Group Realization of the Three-Membered Organization 100
__Begin Small and With Conviction 101
____Core Questions in Light of These Correspondences 103
____As a Producer / Worker 107
The Future of the Three-Membered Organization 110
__Is Technology The Answer? 115
__Country and Local Realization of The Three-Membered Organization 117
__The Three-Membered Organization and the Environment 118
__Imagining The Three-Membered Organization 121
__Working out of an Independent Life of Thought 122
__The Seminal Works of Rudolf Steiner 134
__Books and Lectures on the Social Organism and the Three-Membered Organization 135
____Works by Rudolf Steiner 135
__Works on the Social Question by Others 137
__Holding Conversation, Study Groups, and Workshops 137
Marc Clifton 