The world lies in our hands.
We are responsible.
No one else.
Every single individual can be the starting point of a new future. Anytime.

How we become capable of social reorganization in our lives, our actions, in culture, politics, economics and other fields of life – this is what concerns the section for social sciences at the Goetheanum.

The section sees its task in researching the conditions and principles through which one can act in social life appropriately and with humanity. We want to train and help develop skills and institutions which lead to living conditions in Society that are commensurate with human dignity.

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Threefold Social Organism

As human beings we have three capacities: thinking, feeling and acting. Each of those capacities have a correspondence with the different spheres of the society and are based on a universal value: the freed thinking for the cultural life, the feeling of equality for the other in the legal sphere and the value of solidarity in the economic life. The autonomy of each sphere and the striving for each appropriate principle would open the possibility for a healthy, productive and peaceful society.

Cultural Life

This is the sphere of freedom, where each individual capacity can be unfold to enrich and develop the society as a whole. It is the field of education, art, science and religion.

#freedom #think #spiritual #art

Legal-Political Life

The human rights are independent from the economic power and they do not distinguish among people, the core principle is equality. In this field we have the relationship between human beings as equals.

#equality #feel #empathy #people

Economic Life

The economic life is the transformation of the nature into commodities that meet human needs. The principle that rules this sphere is solidarity: the needs of the other are cover by my work, as my needs are covered by the work of the others.

#solidarity #do #will #colaboration
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Upcoming Events

2 July 2021 - 4 July 2021


“STANDING ON FREE GROUND WITH FREE PEOPLE”.

About Faust, Freedom and Justice

Goethe’s Faust is of almost incomprehensible depth and relevance. It deals with the situation of modern, searching human in their confrontation with the dangers of the world. And it also deals with a subject that has become even more dramatic since then: the fascination with money, possessions and power.

Money, possessions and power determine our lives, our dealings with each other and the course of the world more than we can be happy with. In times of the pandemic, we see their dark side, which we like to repress, magnified as if in a burning glass.

Faust 2021 will be performed in German.

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+41 61 706 43 24/26
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The School of Spiritual Science is responsible for research in the spiritual field, for stimulating and dealing with practical questions and for continuing education in anthroposophically oriented fields of work. Today the university is divided into one general anthroposophical section and ten specialist sections. The work is based on the course in the humanities held by Rudolf Steiner in 1924 for the members of the university as part of their first class. The university has its headquarters and coordination centre at the Goetheanum and its work takes place worldwide in the contexts in which members of the university are active.

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