Book on Rudolf Steiner: science of effective spirit
Rudolf Steiner was the originator of pioneering achievements such as Waldorf Education, biodynamic farming and Anthroposophic Medicine. His scientific approach is not as well known. In his book Rudolf Steiner und die Anthroposophie, Peter Selg describes a man with a social impulse that includes the effectiveness of spiritual forces.
‘Rudolf Steiner’s Goetheanum was conceived as a science centre, a place of spiritual scientific research and teaching, of professional development and practice,’ Peter Selg states in his book about Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy. The author is professor of medical anthropology and ethics at Alanus University in Alfter (DE), head of the Ita Wegman Institute in Arlesheim (CH) and a member of the Goetheanum Leadership in Dornach (CH).
There have been many, also rather controversial, views of Rudolf Steiner since his lifetime. Peter Selg looks from a less common perspective at Steiner's scientific impulse and his public activities after the end of World War I.
The combination of natural scientific clarity and spiritual scientific inclusion of the active spirit has always met with incomprehension, if not rejection and resistance. Peter Selg lists some of the reasons for this, such as the fact that Rudolf Steiner’s primarily oral presentations were taken down in shorthand and published unrevised by him and largely without contextualization. Selg's perspective also exemplifies the treatment of scientific outsiders as described by Thomas S. Kuhn, Ludwig Fleck and Joseph Weizenbaum.
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