I-ing. On the Sphere-Forming Activity of the I

Salvatore Lavecchia explores a concept of Rudolf Steiner’s from The Study of Man (1919): “I-ing”. Contrary to first intuition, this verb does not describe egocentric self-perception but rather the capacity of the sense of the I to perceive the other person before us as an independent I in physical encounter.

Starting from an atmospheric biographical sketch of his native Calabria – where eastern and western light meet – the speaker builds a bridge to a profound meditation by Rudolf Steiner from 1903 on the “secret of the abyss”: “Ponder how the point becomes a sphere and yet remains itself.”

A contribution by Salvatore Lavecchia to the mathematics study conference in October 2025 at the Goetheanum.

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Publication: 5 June 2026