Anthropsophy

It was as both artist and scientist that Rudolf Steiner viewed and studied human existence. Culminating in his philosophy of Anthroposophy or ‘wisdom of man’. Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge and self development which encompasses the realms of religion, philosophy, art and science.

Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. It arises in man as a need of the heart, of the life of feeling; and it can be justified only inasmuch as it can satisfy this inner need.

Echoing the ancient Greek axiom, "Man, Know thyself,” Rudolf Steiner described Anthroposophy as an “awareness of ones humanity.

The word “anthroposophy” means “wisdom of the human being” or, for us today, “awareness of one’s humanity.”

Over time, about 10,000 institutions and initiatives have been founded that endeavor to apply anthroposophy: schools (often called Rudolf Steiner schools, Waldorf schools or independent schools), homes, workshops and schools working within curative education and social therapy, clinics, doctor’s practices, pharmaceutical companies, biodynamic farms, banks, art schools, stage groups, businesses, etc. The thing that connects these endeavors to the Goetheanum is their mutual basis in anthroposophy.