It was at the end of the Great War, when the modern world was waking from one of its greatest follies, that Rudolf Steiner actively sought to bring social balance and humane reasoning to a world distraught.
He gave it a new method of education as a firm foundation for the process of recovery and with it the fundamental remedy for a sick social order — the separation and co-ordination of the three-fold order existing in the spiritual-cultural life, the political life of rights and the economic life. The remedy is logical, practical and humane.
Many years before this, he had started his public career with a book called The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity — the last two words of this title being his own rendering of the word Freiheit (freedom); and upon this his life and work are mainly based.