Glossary

A Road to Self-Knowledge in Anthroposophy

A Road to Self-Knowledge in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's 1912 book of eight meditations, each building, in the first person, a verifiable inner experience of one member of the human...

Critical Idealism in Anthroposophy

Critical Idealism is the theory of knowledge, traced by Steiner from Kant and Schopenhauer to Eduard von Hartmann, holding that the perceived world is only an idea in the mind,...

German Idealism in Anthroposophy

German Idealism in Anthroposophy is the philosophical stream of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Schelling, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel that Rudolf Steiner read as the German folk spirit's attempt to...

Schiller's Aesthetic Letters in Anthroposophy

Schiller's Aesthetic Letters are Friedrich Schiller's 1795 work On the Aesthetic Education of Man, which Rudolf Steiner reads as locating human freedom in a middle condition between the sense-drive and...

Friedrich Schiller in Anthroposophy

Friedrich Schiller (1759 to 1805) is the poet of Wallenstein, William Tell, and the Ode to Joy, and for Rudolf Steiner a thinker who anticipated spiritual science. Steiner devoted a...

Johann Gottlieb Fichte in Anthroposophy

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 to 1814) was the German Idealist philosopher of the self-positing I. Rudolf Steiner returns to him across many lecture cycles as a thinker whose active, willed...