His primary interest was in applying the methodology of science to realms of inner experience and the spiritual worlds ( Steiner's appreciation that the essence of science is its method of inquiry is unusual among esotericists ), and Steiner called anthroposophy Geisteswissenschaft ( lit.

The early personages most cited for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950 – 1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation.

Philosopher Rudolf Steiner established the first Waldorf education school in 1919, using a pedagogy also known as the Steiner method, which spread worldwide.

The first progress toward the solution was made by Swiss geometer Jakob Steiner in 1838, using a geometric method later named Steiner symmetrisation.

" In light of his concept of literary evolution as a struggle among competing elements, the method of parody, " the dialectic play of devices ," becomes an important vehicle of change " ( Steiner, " Russian Formalism " 21 ).

* Biodynamic agriculture, a method of farming based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner

Steiner hoped to form a spiritual movement that would free the individual from any external authority: " The most important problem of all human thinking is this: to comprehend the human being as a personality grounded in him or herself.

This is a pedagogical movement with over 1000 Steiner or Waldorf schools ( the latter name stems from the first such school, founded in Stuttgart in 1919 ) located in some 60 countries ; the great majority of these are independent ( private ) schools.

Steiner is considered one of the founders of the modern organic farming movement.

Steiner described many exercises he said were suited to strengthening such self-discipline ; the most complete exposition of these is found in his book How To Know Higher Worlds.

Steiner added to this the conception that a further step in the development of thinking is possible when the thinker observes his or her own thought processes.

In his early works, Steiner sought to overcome what he perceived as the dualism of Cartesian idealism and Kantian subjectivism by developing Goethe's conception of the human being as a natural-supernatural entity, that is: natural in that humanity is a product of nature, supernatural in that through our conceptual powers we extend nature's realm, allowing it to achieve a reflective capacity in us as philosophy, art and science.

This being is, according to Steiner, not only the Redeemer of the Fall from Paradise, but also the unique pivot and meaning of earth's evolutionary processes and of human history.

** Through initiatory experiences whereby the reality of Christ's death and resurrection are experienced ; Steiner believed this is the path people will increasingly take.

Though Rudolf Steiner studied natural science at the Vienna Technical University at the undergraduate level, his doctorate was in epistemology and very little of his work is directly concerned with the empirical sciences.

Though Steiner saw that spiritual vision itself is difficult for others to achieve, he recommended open-mindedly exploring and rationally testing the results of such research ; he also urged others to follow a spiritual training that would allow them directly to apply the methods he used eventually to achieve comparable results.

The solution of the problem is a special case of a Steiner system, which systems play an important role in the classification of finite simple groups.

Left-libertarianism, as defended by contemporary theorists such as Peter Vallentyne, Hillel Steiner, and Michael Otsuka, is a doctrine that has a strong commitment to personal liberty and has an egalitarian view concerning natural resources, believing that it is illegitimate for anyone to claim private ownership of resources to the detriment of others.

Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood, and is widely regarded today as one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema.

It is the premonitory earthquake of the New Age ..." Former Theosophist Rudolf Steiner and his Anthroposophical movement are a major influence.

Little information on Steiner is available, but a broadside for a lecture given by him identifies him as " National Sec ' y Rationalist Association " ( presumably the American Rationalist Association, which published his Religious Treason in the American Republic c. 1927 ).

However, according to Steiner there is little evidence that he ever formally joined a church.

Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House ( Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932 ), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.

Waldorf education ( also known as Steiner or Steiner-Waldorf education ) is a humanistic approach to pedagogy based upon the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy.

In his book review, George Steiner compared Pirsig's writing to Dostoevsky, Broch, Proust, and Bergson, stating that " the assertion itself is valid ... the analogies with Moby-Dick are patent ".

Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

The Representative of Humanity, detail of a sculpture in wood by Rudolf Steiner and Edith Maryon.

The First Goetheanum, designed by Steiner in 1920, Dornach, Switzerland.

Steiner held that the spiritual world can be researched in the right circumstances through direct experience, by persons practicing rigorous forms of ethical and cognitive self-discipline.

In this connection, Steiner examines the step from thinking determined by outer impressions to what he calls sense-free thinking.

* Steiner differentiated three contemporary paths by which he believed it possible to arrive at Christ:

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

Eurythmy, developed by Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner-von Sivers, combines formal elements reminiscent of traditional dance with the new freer style, and introduced a complex new vocabulary to dance.

In the 20th century, Theosophy was further developed by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, while people like Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and many others, became the source for a whole range of post-theosophical movements such as The Summit Lighthouse.

Anthroposophy, which was founded by Rudolf Steiner in the early part of the 20th century, includes esoteric versions of education, agriculture, and medicine.

* The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, by Zoologist Gerolf Steiner, purports to be a non-fictional natural history study, and was written, published, and presented as if it were an actual scientific treatise documenting the recently-extinct indigenous wildlife (" Rhinogradentia ") of the equally fictitious Hi-yi-yi archipelago.

* Les en-dehors: Anarchistes individualistes et illégalistes à la « Belle époque » by Anne Steiner.

* Steiner, Margreet L. ( 2001 ), Excavations by Kathleen M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961 – 1967, Volume III — The Settlement in the Bronze and Iron Ages, London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

A child prodigy in composing, Steiner received piano instruction from Johannes Brahms and, at the age of sixteen, enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Music ( now known as the University of Music and Performing Arts ), where he was taught by Gustav Mahler among others.

Steiner worked in New York for eleven years as a musical director, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of Broadway operettas and musicals written by Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, and George Gershwin, among others.

Steiner scored several films produced by RKO, the final of which was Follow the Fleet.

In 1939, Steiner was borrowed from Warner Bros. by David O Selznick to compose the score to Gone with the Wind.

While claims of racial bias in the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Alice Bailey were made, Bailey was firmly opposed to the Axis powers ; she believed that Adolf Hitler was possessed by the Dark Forces, and Steiner emphasized racial equality as a principle central to anthroposophical thought and humanity's progress.

by Franklin Steiner ( original publication: Girard, KS.

Many subscribers were alienated by Steiner's unpopular support of Émile Zola in the Dreyfus Affair and the journal lost more subscribers when Steiner published extracts from his correspondence with anarchist John Henry Mackay.