Glossary
Goethean Epistemology in Anthroposophy
Goethean epistemology names the way of knowing that Steiner saw already at work in Goethe and then set on a philosophical footing. Where Kant fixed a wall between the mind...
The Idea in Perception in Anthroposophy
The Idea in Perception names Rudolf Steiner's answer to a single question: where does the meaning of a perceived thing reside? Not behind the senses, in some hidden cause, and...
The Primal Phenomenon in Anthroposophy
To meet a primal phenomenon is to stop asking what lies behind an appearance and to read the law within the appearance itself. Steiner found in Goethe a science that...
The Nature of Light in Anthroposophy
The nature of light in Anthroposophy concerns what light actually is, before physics translates it into a wave or a particle. In the 1920 Light Course, Rudolf Steiner treated light...
Physiological Colours in Anthroposophy
Physiological colours are the colours that arise in the eye itself rather than reaching it from outside. Stare at a saturated red, glance away, and a green ghost of it...
Goethean Colour Theory in Anthroposophy
Goethean Colour Theory is Steiner's development of Goethe's 1810 Farbenlehre into a spiritual science of colour, in which each hue is a living quality born where light meets darkness, not...