Name: The Aims of Anthroposophy and the Purpose of the Goetheanum: (Cw 84)
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Author: Steiner, Rudolf ; Barton, Matthew ; Barton, Matthew
ISBN: 9781855845718

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The Aims of Anthroposophy and the Purpose of the Goetheanum: (Cw 84)

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Physical Book

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Publisher

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

254

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1 x 15.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781855845718

Synopsis "The Aims of Anthroposophy and the Purpose of the Goetheanum: (Cw 84)"

11 lectures in various cities, April 9, 1923 - May 26, 1924 (CW 84)In his final lectures to the general public, Rudolf Steiner speaks with great clarity and purpose about the inner and outer need for the anthroposophical impulse in modern times. Following the fire that destroyed the first Goetheanum building in Dornach, Switzerland, Steiner had focused his efforts on rebuilding and reorganizing the Anthroposophical Society. But he also continued to travel and speak to the public--in Prague, Vienna, and Basel--to explain the purpose of the Goetheanum and to elucidate the broader aims of his spiritual work.These lectures, including a semi-public series in Dornach, are collected here in English for the first time, along with an introduction, notes and index.This volume is a translation from German of Was wollte das Goetheanum und was soll die Anthroposophie? (GA 84).

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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