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Steiner, Rudolf Joseph Lorenz

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Author(s): Zander, Helmut
[German Version] (Feb 25, 1861, Kraljevec [now in Croatia] – Mar 30, 1925, Dornach, Switzerland), founder of anthroposophy. He was baptized Catholic but grew up a freethinker. After interrupted study of the natural sciences (1879/1883), he worked until 1897 as editor of J.W. v. Goethe’s scientific writings. In 1891 he received his doctorate with a thesis on J.G. Fichte’s epistemology but failed to earn habilitation. During these years, Steiner was influenced by German Idealism and Goethean natural…

Soul, transmigration of

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Author(s): Zander, Helmut
Transmigration of the human soul means its reincarnation (metempsychosis) as a person or other living being [8]. The ancient traditions (of Pythagoreanism, Platonism, and especially Neoplatonism) mostly died out in late antiquity, as pagan intellectuals (e.g. the Neoplatonists of the 6th century) rejected the concept of transmigration, which was in any case irreconcilable with Christian theology. The medieval Cathars’ ideas on the soul remained essentially without consequence.Early modern concepts of transmigration came mainly from three sources:(1) Transmigration …
Date: 2022-08-17

Seelenwanderung

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Author(s): Zander, Helmut
S. bedeutet die erneute Verkörperung (Reinkarnation, Metempsychose) der Seele eines Menschen als Mensch oder auch als ein anderes Lebewesen [8]. Die antiken Traditionen (des Pythagoreismus und des Platonismus, v. a. aber des Neuplatonismus) brachen in der Spätantike weitgehend ab, da das Konzept einer S. sowohl von den heidnischen Intellektuellen (etwa den Neuplatonikern des 6. Jh.s) abgelehnt wurde als auch mit der Theologie des Christentums unvereinbar war. Die S.-Vorstellungen der Katharer im MA blieben wohl ohne Nachfolge. Für die nzl. Auffassungen der S. kommen v…
Date: 2019-11-19