Glossary

The Rights Life in Anthroposophy

The Rights Life is the sphere of a healthy society in which people meet purely as equals and agree the rules that govern their dealings as person to person. Rudolf...

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity in Anthroposophy

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity names the rallying cry of the French Revolution, which Rudolf Steiner took up in 1919 and read in a new way. The three ideals seem to clash...

Economic Life in Anthroposophy

Economic Life in Anthroposophy is the third member of Rudolf Steiner's threefold social order, the sphere in which human beings produce, circulate and consume the goods that meet bodily need....

The Threefold Commonwealth in Anthroposophy

The Threefold Commonwealth names the social form Steiner first announced publicly in 1919, when post-war Germany was deciding between unchecked capitalism and Bolshevik collectivism. His answer rejected both.

Spiritual-Cultural Life in Anthroposophy

Spiritual-cultural life is the member of Rudolf Steiner threefold social organism that carries education, science, art and religious life. Steiner held that this sphere thrives only when it administers itself,...

The Art of Painting in Anthroposophy

The Art of Painting in Steiner's understanding begins not with line and contour but with the living quality of colour. A painter who works this way does not draw an...