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Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Schiller (1886)

A Theory of Knowledge

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalogpublished the site's GA catalog
Kindtext the site's GA catalog
ISBN

Editions of the German volume

EditionYearPagesWitness
82003186the publisher's online catalog
92022180the publisher's online catalog

Printed contents

9 units in the printed table of contents, about 32,883 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1960.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
VORREDE ZUR NEUAUFLAGEtext1516
VORWORT ZUR ERSTEN AUFLAGEtext504
A. VORFRAGENtext3430
B. DIE ERFAHRUNGtext4619
C. DAS DENKENtext4818
D. DIE WISSENSCHAFTtext5964
E. DAS NATUR-ERKENNENtext7403
F. DIE GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTENtext3884
ABSCHLUSStext745

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served23 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text9 the site's completeness audit
Words served32468 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print0.99 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA002/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used1960 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Theory Of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940) AP1940

TranslatorOlin D. Wannamaker the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940)
PublisherAnthroposophic Press the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940)
PlaceNew York the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940)
Years1940
Pages118 the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940)
Translated fromtranslated from the second German edition of 1924 the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940)
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • The Theory Of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception, Anthroposophic Press, New York and Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., London, 1940, 118 pp. plus notes, translated from the second German edition of 1924 by Olin D. Wannamaker the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940)

The Science of Knowing. Outline of an Epistemology Implicit in the Goethean World View. With Particular Reference to Schiller the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988); AnthroWiki (English) MP1988

TranslatorWilliam Lindeman the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988); AnthroWiki (English)
PublisherMercury Press the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988); AnthroWiki (English)
PlaceSpring Valley, N. Y. the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988)
Years1988
Pages125 the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988)
Translated fromtranslated from the 7th German edition of 1979 the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988)
ISBN0-936132-97-3 AnthroWiki (English)
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • The Science of Knowing, Mercury Press, Spring Valley, N. Y., 1988, 125 pp., translated from the 7th German edition of 1979 by William Lindeman the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988)
  • • [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *The Science of Knowing. Outline of an Epistemology Implicit in the Goethean World View. With Particular Reference to Schiller*, translated by William Lindeman, Mercury Press, Spring Valley/New York 1988, ISBN 0-936132-97-3 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0002/English/MP1988/GA002_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

TitleTranslatorPublisherYearISBNRights
Goethe's Theory of Knowledge the SteinerBooks catalog CW 2 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Clifford Venho, David Ecklund, David W. Wood SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 2021 9781734546125 in copyright
The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception with Specific Reference to Schiller AnthroWiki (English) CW 2 AnthroWiki (English) William Lindeman AnthroWiki (English) Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English) 1985 0-91014-294-7

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
AP1940261, 18, 71960, 0
MP1988242, 18, 42100, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served13 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Schiller (1886) (GA 2), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/2/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/2/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1940, MP1988.

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Witnesses

Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.

the site's alignment tables
~/data/build/search-2026-10-21b.db · sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German)
https://anthrowiki.at/GA_2
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_2 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index
site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog
data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog
the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German
data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022
Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA002/AP1940)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA002/AP1940/00_toc.md · sha256 1f77db259c69e3d0
the edition's imprint line (GA002/MP1988)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA002/MP1988/00_toc.md · sha256 86ebbdc06d798183
the printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 b3dcf475d30d67f6
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA002/ · sha256 062dea254153da77
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit
research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog
SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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