anthroposophy, n.Definitions

Anthroposophy is primarily defined by its method of research, and secondly by the possible knowledge or experiences this leads to.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.

Anthroposophy is an effort to develop not only natural scientific, but also a spiritual scientific research on the basis of the strivings within the idealistic tradition that have led to the development of modern science.

Anthroposophy strives to bridge the clefts that have developed since the Middle Ages between the sciences, the arts and the religious strivings of man as the three main areas of human culture, and build the foundation for a synthesis of them for the future.

Anthroposophy is an impulse to nurture the life of the soul in the individual and in human society, meaning among other things to nurture the respect for and interest in others on a purely human basis independently of their origin and views.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge or spiritual research, developed on the basis of European idealistic philosophy, rooted in the philosophies of Aristotle, Plato, and Thomas Aquinas.

Anthroposophy arises in man as a need of the heart, of the life of feeling; and it can be be justified only inasmuch as it can satisfy this inner need.

Anthroposophy is a spiritual path available only to those who can feel certain questions on the nature of man and the universe as an elemental need of life, just as one feels hunger and thirst.