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Einführung in die Anthroposophie. Ausgewählte Texte
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Published January 1, 1987
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Rudolf Steiner
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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.
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February 2, 2022
Die Texte sind sehr vielfältig ausgewählt, und entsprechend stark variiert auch der Inhalt. Manche sind aktuell wie nie, andere sind vor allem durch ihr Alter interessant. Einige Passagen sind absolut bizarr. Ich möchte an dieser Stelle thematisch nicht weiter darauf eingehen.
Da das Buch nicht sonderlich zusammenhängend aufgebaut ist (weder chronologisch, noch thematisch), ist es kein Problem, solche Passagen oder persönlich weniger interessante zu überspringen.
Hier möchte ich anfügen, dass ich die Textauswahl, deren Anordnung, und die Vorworte des Herausgebers nicht sonderlich gelungen finde.
Allen Texten gemeinsam ist ihr Alter von über 100 Jahren. Entsprechend braucht es schon eine gewisse Konzentration beim Lesen, ab und zu ist es auch anstrengend.
Wer aber dazu bereit ist, kann diesem Buch sicher ein paar anregende Gedanken entnehmen.
Da das Buch nicht sonderlich zusammenhängend aufgebaut ist (weder chronologisch, noch thematisch), ist es kein Problem, solche Passagen oder persönlich weniger interessante zu überspringen.
Hier möchte ich anfügen, dass ich die Textauswahl, deren Anordnung, und die Vorworte des Herausgebers nicht sonderlich gelungen finde.
Allen Texten gemeinsam ist ihr Alter von über 100 Jahren. Entsprechend braucht es schon eine gewisse Konzentration beim Lesen, ab und zu ist es auch anstrengend.
Wer aber dazu bereit ist, kann diesem Buch sicher ein paar anregende Gedanken entnehmen.
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