{"id":64827,"date":"2025-04-02T19:46:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=64827"},"modified":"2025-04-04T12:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:57:53","slug":"shattering-all-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/shattering-all-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Shattering All Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"Was Rudolf Steiner an Aristotelian or somehow, at least in some respects, a Platonist? These questions have evoked much controversy over the last 100 years.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSuch questions naturally concern not only Rudolf Steiner, but anthroposophy in general. Was anthroposophy born Aristotelian in order to integrate the Platonic into itself at some point? Indeed, what if Rudolf Steiner was neither a Platonist nor an Aristotelian but, quite simply, a Socratic? I immediately hear the concerns this question raises: should we introduce yet another pigeonhole that encompasses Steiner and anthroposophy? But the answer is a clear no, if we take Socrates' midwifery\u2014which is characterized in Plato\u2019s Theaetetus (148e-151d)\u2014seriously, as a seminal shattering of all pigeonholes, stereotypes, discourses,<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Rudolf Steiner an Aristotelian or somehow, at least in some respects, a Platonist? These questions have evoked much controversy over the last 100 years. Such questions naturally concern not only Rudolf Steiner, but anthroposophy in general. Was anthroposophy born Aristotelian in order to integrate the Platonic into itself at some point? Indeed, what if Rudolf Steiner was neither a Platonist nor an Aristotelian but, quite simply, a Socratic? I immediately hear the concerns this question raises: should we introduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9304,"featured_media":64868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11614],"tags":[11637,11638,8814],"class_list":["post-64827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steiner-as","tag-ausgabe-11-2025-en","tag-english-issue-14-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64827","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\/9304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}