Glossary
The Plastic and the Musical in Speech in Anthro...
The Plastic and the Musical in Speech in Anthroposophy is the polarity Rudolf Steiner described in Methodology and Nature of Speech Formation (GA 280, the 1922 speech course), where spoken...
Good-, Beautiful- and Correct-Speaking in Anthr...
Good-, Beautiful- and Correct-Speaking is Rudolf Steiner's threefold measure of how an utterance can be judged. A sentence may be beautiful or ugly, correct or incorrect, and, on a third...
Sound-Formation Versus Sound-Meaning in Anthrop...
Sound-Formation Versus Sound-Meaning in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's distinction between living inside the bare sound-element of speech and grasping the abstract meaning that words carry, a meaning he treated as...
Bright and Dark Vowels in Anthroposophy
Bright and dark vowels are Steiner's two vowel families in the art of speech. Bright e and i live in the agitated nerve-person and send the speech-stream outward; dark a,...
Epic, Lyric and Dramatic Styles of Speaking in ...
Epic, Lyric and Dramatic Styles of Speaking in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's threefold doctrine, set out in the 1922 speech and drama courses gathered in GA 280, that the three...
Art as a Higher Nature Within Nature in Anthrop...
Art as a Higher Nature Within Nature is the aesthetic law Rudolf Steiner borrows from Goethe to explain why eurythmy is art and not mere imitation. Art never copies what...