anthroposophy

English

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Etymology

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌænθɹəˈpɑsəfi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌænθɹəˈpɒsəfi/

Noun

anthroposophy ‎(uncountable)

1. Human wisdom; knowledge or understanding of human nature.
2. 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.

Derived terms

• anthroposophic
• anthroposophist

Translations

a spiritual philosophy

• German: Anthroposophie (de) f
• Irish: antrapasúnacht f
• Khmer: នរបញ្ញា ‎(neak rak panh nhar)

• Norwegian: antroposofi m
• Portuguese: antroposofia (pt) f
• Romanian: antropozofie (ro)