{"id":41505,"date":"2022-11-03T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=41505"},"modified":"2022-11-03T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:48:41","slug":"anthroposophy-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/anthroposophy-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthroposophy&nbsp;and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"When one examines the scientific nature of Anthroposophy, questions inevitably arise. Andreas Heertsch deftly weaves through the affinities and differences one encounters when comparing Anthroposophy as a spiritual science with today's natural science.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatzig\n\n\n\nAs a student, I attended a seminar on Spinoza's ethics. The 17th-century optical lens grinder was so convinced of mathematics and its clarity that he delineated his ethics like a geometry textbook. In this seminar, the professor \u2013 his name was \u2039Patzig\u203a of all things and was a proponent of formal logic \u2013 asked what an axiom was. Since I had already completed a few semesters of physics and mathematics, I could not resist answering, even as a non-specialist: \u00abAn axiom is a sentence that cannot be justified any further,<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one examines the scientific nature of Anthroposophy, questions inevitably arise. Andreas Heertsch deftly weaves through the affinities and differences one encounters when comparing Anthroposophy as a spiritual science with today&#8217;s natural science. Patzig As a student, I attended a seminar on Spinoza&#8217;s ethics. The 17th-century optical lens grinder was so convinced of mathematics and its clarity that he delineated his ethics like a geometry textbook. In this seminar, the professor \u2013 his name was \u2039Patzig\u203a of all things and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9235,"featured_media":41005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8793,9183],"tags":[11016,8814],"class_list":["post-41505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-general-anthroposophy","tag-2022-38-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}