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Re: Steiner

Google turns up loads of English-language websites that help answer
Jim's question.

The short answer is: Steiner was an Austro-Croatian philosopher who
came to prominence at the turn of the 20th century, the father of
"Anthroposophy". In his words, "Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge,
to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the
universe." A sizeable cult developed around Dr. Steiner and his
teachings.

He founded a school based on Anthroposophic principles which served as
the initial model for today's Waldorf School educational philosophy
movement, including a federation of several hundred private schools
worldwide. He still has a substantial following: there are Rudolf
Steiner schools, Rudolf Steiner Institutes, Rudolf Steiner Foundations,
Rudolf Steiner Colleges, and Rudolf Steiner printing houses.

The guy was a prodigious lecturer (5000-6000 over 3 decades), and he
touched on practically every enterprise known to man and a few not
previously known. In Stuttgart in 1920-21 he gave a series of about 60
lectures outlining his Anthroposophic take on mathematics, physics and
natural sciences in general; I imagine these are the lectures to which
Jim is referring. The Stuttgart lectures were delivered and published
as 5 courses of study: "light", "warmth", "boundaries of science",
"astronomy", and "Anthroposophy and science". Though I have not read
more than synopses of the lectures, I suspect most of us would interpret
his approach to physics as "unconventional". Spiritualism, creationism,
astrology, all the good stuff.

Best wishes,

Larry
(who is now more in touch with his Karma after revisiting
Herr Professor Steiner, who he remembered only vaguely as
an education class topic 40 years ago)

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Larry Cartwright Retired Physics Teacher
<exit60@cablespeed.com> Charlotte MI 48813 USA
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Herbert Voss wrote:

Jim Green schrieb:
Can someone please give a very brief bio of Rudolf Steiner.

There is a Rudolph Steiner Archive of physics lectures on
the net. Who was this guy?

http://www.rudolf-steiner.de/thema/biographie/index.htm

it is a german site, but you can run google
for Rudolf Steiner and translate the page.

Herbert