Rudolf Steiner

Tags: Philosopher.

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (25/27 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.

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birth date

1861-02-25, 1861-02-27

birth place

Austria-Hungary, Croatia, Donji Kraljevec

death date

1925-03-30

death place

Dornach

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Albert Schweitzer, Saul Bellow, Édouard Schuré, Wassily Kandinsky, Martin Buber, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Richard Tarnas

influenced by

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Julius Schröer, Friedrich Schiller, Franz Brentano, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Schelling

LCCN Id

n/79/049580

main interest

Christianity, Epistemology, Esotericism, Freemasonry, Metaphysics, Philosophy of science

notableIdea

Anthroposophy, Biodynamic agriculture, Waldorf education, Eurythmy, Holism, Anthroposophic medicine, Holism in science

philosophicalSchool

Monism, Holism