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Definition of "anthroposophy" []

  • A system of beliefs and practice based on the teachings of Rudolph Steiner and maintaining that by correct training and personal discipline one can attain experience of the spiritual world. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "anthroposophy" in a sentence
  • "It's built on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner known as anthroposophy, which includes understanding "the ecological, the energetic, and the spiritual in nature.""
  • "Some organic growers practice the "bio-dynamic" principles of the late Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian polymath, founder of "anthroposophy" and the Waldorf Schools, and who in 1924 delivered lectures in Koberwitz, Silesia, on agricultural theory."
  • "This is much of anthroposophy: the idea that the underlying order and meaning must be spiritual, pushing out into the world of our perceptions and which we should go seeking not only by examining objects, but investigating purposes, meanings, the spiritual significance of things."
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