Anthroposophy

Definition

Anthroposophy is understood by its members as a spiritual science founded by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, who was an active member of Theosophy from 1902 until 1912, when he left it and developed the anthroposophy. The anthroposophy admits and recognizes the historical events and all the discoveries of natural science, although it interprets and expands them according to its findings by a research method that considers a spiritual empiricism – perception that was provided to it by Goethe’s phenomenology.

Introduction

Rudolf Steiner was born in 1861 in Kraljevec (it is now part of Croatia), moved to Vienna at the age of 18, and lived in that region where a great social, cultural, political, philosophical, and scientific boiling was happening and that crossed through Europe. The Central European cultural scene of the second half of the nineteenth century – where Rudolf Steiner is educated and in which he also elaborates the philosophical underpinnings of...