anthroposophy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
anthropo- + -sophy, from a Renaissance Latin anthroposophia (attested in Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, d. 1535, and Thomas Vaughan, d. 1666), popularized from the 1910s via German Anthroposophie (Rudolf Steiner, 1861–1925).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌænθɹəˈpɑsəfi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌænθɹəˈpɒsəfi/
Noun[edit]
anthroposophy (uncountable)
- (archaic, as used before Rudolf Steiner) Knowledge or understanding of human nature.
- A spiritual movement inaugurated by Rudolf Steiner (also capitalized as Anthroposophy), postulating the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 223]:
- Anthroposophy was having definite effects. I couldn't take any of this to heart. Other-worldliness tinged it all and every little while my spirit seemed to dissociate itself.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 223]:
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Translations[edit]
spiritual movement
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