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Im Schweizergarten, einer Parkanlage in Wien, befindet sich ein Denkmal für Rudolf Steiner mit folgender Inschrift:
Rudolf Steiner
1861 - 1925
Dr. Phil, Philosoph u. Anthroposoph.
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (* 27. Februar 1861 in Kraljevec, Kaisertum Österreich, heute Kroatien; † 30. März 1925 in Dornach, Schweiz) war ein österreichischer Philosoph, Publizist und Esoteriker. Er begründete die Anthroposophie, eine spirituelle Weltanschauung, die an die moderne Theosophie (Helena Petrovna Blavatsky), das Rosenkreuzertum, die Gnosis sowie die idealistische Philosophie anschließt und zu den neuen mystischen Konzeptionen der Einheit von Mensch und Welt aus der Zeit um 1900 gezählt wird. Auf Grundlage dieser Lehre gab Steiner einflussreiche Anregungen für verschiedene Lebensbereiche, etwa Pädagogik (Waldorfpädagogik), Kunst (Eurythmie, anthroposophische Architektur), Soziales (Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus), Medizin (anthroposophische Medizin), Religion (die Christengemeinschaft) und Landwirtschaft (biologisch-dynamische Landwirtschaft).
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In the "Schweizergarten" (Swiss garden), a park in Vienna, there's a memorial for Rudolf Steiner with the following inscription:
Rudolf Steiner
1861 - 1925
Dr. Phil, Philosoph u. Anthroposoph.
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 (or 25) February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy; other influences include Goethean science and Rosicrucianism.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts (developing a new artistic form, eurythmy) and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts.[10] In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked to establish various practical endeavors, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, in which "Thinking… is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge.
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