Anthroposophy, though appreciative of all religions and cultural developments, emphasizes recent Western (rather than older Hindu or Buddhist) esoteric thought as being more appropriate to contemporary needs, and perceives Christ and His mission on earth as having a particularly important place in human evolution, though these are not viewed in the same way as in the mainstream Christian churches. Steiner emphasized that the being that manifests in Christianity also manifests in all faiths and religions; it is the being that unifies all reli ...

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Practical results of Anthroposophy include work in: Architecture (Goetheanum), Biodynamic agriculture, Holistic Waldorf Education Astrosophy as opposed to Astrology, Anthroposophical Medicine (Weleda), Philosophy (The "Philosophy of Freedom"), Goethean Science resulting in new developments in the Arts, Eurythmy ("movement as visible speech"), Centres for helping the mentally handicapped (Camphill Villages) and ...

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Anthroposophy, also called spiritual science by its founder, Rudolf Steiner is a spiritual philosophy and approach to investigating non-physical levels of, and influences on, reality. Steiner described his approach as "soul-observations using scientific methodology". (Steiner, [1893] 1995). Steiner's ideas have their roots in the flowering of Germanic culture that resulted in the transcendent philosophy of Hegel, Fichte and Schelling, on the one hand, and the poetic and scientific works of Goethe, upon whom Steiner draws heavily, on t ...

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Waldorf Education, sometimes called Steiner education, is a world-wide movement based on an educational philosophy first formulated by Austrian Rudolf Steiner in 1907 in his short book, The Education of the Child in the Light of Spiritual Science. The first school actually implementing this pedagogical approach was founded just after World War I. With a goal of educating the "whole child", Waldorf educators place a strong emphasis on balancing the child's natural stages of development with creativity and academic excellence. There is a strong e ...

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Waldorf schools have been criticized for downplaying their spiritual nature, which many interpret to be religious. Some critics feel that the teachers influence the children with Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, which most Waldorf teachers study. Some even go as far as to say that the schools are front organizations for indoctrination into Anthroposophy. Supporters respond that in a genuine Waldorf school Anthroposophy is never taught. Waldorf educators are also questioned about not teaching reading and academics until approximately age 6-7. Critics claim that ...

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Anthroposophy explicitly extends natural science's mandate - to study the world as external observers (a mandate which has been shaken by quantum mechanics' rejection of the possibility of splitting the observer from the observed phenomena) - to explore human experience from within, as well. It postulates that, as we have learned over centuries and even millenia to treat our experience of the outer world in a clear and systematic way, w ...

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Anthroposophy, though appreciative of all religions and cultural developments, emphasizes recent Western (rather than older Hindu or Buddhist) esoteric thought as being more appropriate to contemporary needs, and perceives Christ and His mission on earth as having a particularly important place in human evolution, though these are not viewed in the same way as in the mainstream Christian churches. Steiner emphasized that the being that manifests in Christianity also manifests in all faiths and religions; it is the being that unifies all reli ...

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Practical results of Anthroposophy include work in: Architecture (Goetheanum), Biodynamic agriculture, Holistic Waldorf Education Astrosophy as opposed to Astrology, Anthroposophical Medicine (Weleda), Philosophy (The "Philosophy of Freedom"), Goethean Science resulting in new developments in the Arts, Eurythmy ("movement as visible speech"), Centres for helping the mentally handicapped (Camphill Villages) and ...

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According to Steiner, a real spiritual world exists out of which the material one gradually condensed, and evolved. The spiritual world, Steiner held, can in the right circumstances be researched through direct experience, by persons practicing rigorous forms of ethical and cognitive self-discipline. Steiner described many exercises he said were suited to strengthening such self-discipline. Details about the spiritual world, he said, could on such a basis be dis ...

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Some critics maintain that some anthroposophists tend to elevate Steiner's personal opinions to the level of absolute truths. Supporters claim that if there is a degree of truth to this criticism, most of the blame belongs not to Steiner, but to a few of his students. They point out that Steiner frequently asked that everything he said be tested by sound reason, and not to be taken on faith or authority. A fundamental question underlying the modern response to 'spiritual science' is: Is it possible for one's thinking to be both scient ...

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The Epistemic basis for Anthroposophy is contained in the seminal work, The Philosophy of Freedom, as well as in Steiner's doctoral thesis, Truth and Science. These and several other early books by Steiner anticipated 20th century continental philosophy's gradual overcoming of Cartesian idealism and of Kantian subjectivism. Like Edmund Husserl and Ortega y Gasset, Steiner was profoundly influenced by the works of Franz Brentano (whose lectures he had heard as a student at the University of Vienna) and had read Wilhelm Dilthey i ...

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Out of the anthroposophical movement have come nearly a thousand schools world-wide. These are often called Waldorf Schools, after the first such school, founded in 1919; they are also sometimes called Steiner Schools. Some have been supported by the United Nations and receive full or partial governmental funding in some European nations. They are successful in an unusual range of circumstances: in the impoverished barrios of San Paulo and the wealthy suburbs of New York City, in India, Egypt, Australia, Holland and Mexico. Usually su ...

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In his early twenties, Steiner was asked to edit Goethe's scientific writings for a major publication of that writer's complete works. In the course of this work, Steiner began publishing various works that foreshadowed his later ideas, but were still set within the philosophical and scientific framework of his age: chiefly Goethe's Conception of the World and his commentaries on Goethe's scientific essays. His first masterwork, Die Philosophie der Freiheit (translated variously as The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, < ...

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For a period after World War I, Steiner was extremely active and well-known in Germany in part because in many places he gave lectures on social questions. A petition expressing his basic social ideas (signed by Herman Hesse, among others) was very widely circulated. His main book on social questions, Die Kernpunkte der Sozialen Frage (available in English today as Toward Social Renewal) sold tens of thousands of copies. Today around the world there are a number of innovative banks, companies, charitable institutions, an ...

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Waldorf Education is principaly based on the work of Rudolf Steiner and was later developed by Hermann von Baravalle and Caroline von Heydebrand among others. Waldorf schools employ a curriculum that focuses on the developmental stages of childhood. In general, there are three larger phases: early childhood, when learning is experiential and sensory; the middle years (corresponding roughly to the elementary school years), when learning is imaginative and takes place through creative, and especially artistic activity; and adolescence, when learning is abstract and intellectually rigorous. Inside these roughly sev ...

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Besides seeking to foster creative development of the "whole child," Steiner also started the Waldorf movement in order to help fulfill a social purpose: that education, while remaining fully accessible and available to all regardless of economic background, should eventually cease to be controlled by the State, and should instead come to depend on the free choices of families and teachers freely developing a highly plurali ...

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Waldorf education was developed by Rudolf Steiner as an attempt to establish a school system that would facilitate the inclusive, broadly based, balanced development of children. His first opportunity to open such a school came when Emil Molt of the Waldorf-Astoria Cigarette Company asked him to do so in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. Steiner insisted upon four conditions before opening: that the school be open to all children; that it be coeducational; that it be a unified twelve-year school; that the te ...

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Proponents cite research, by Piaget and others, which supports the view that early academic learning actually interferes with the development in early childhood of faculties that will enhance later learning capacity. (David Elkind: Early Childhood Education: Developmental or Academic) They maintain that the literacy-building techniques Waldorf schools use during early childhood—storytelling, music and singing, games, speech, and movement exercises—help to nourish imagination and a love of language which will be carried long after the chi ...

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Waldorf Education - List of Waldorf Schools. See the separate article , List of Waldorf Schools. ...

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