INNER DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT - BEING AN ANTHROPOSOPHIST IN WARTIME

Friday march 25, 2022 - 20:00 - 21:30

An online lecture by Gerald Häfner, Head of the Social Science Section at the Goetheanum

Cultivating anthroposophy opens up to impulses that may seem to be opposed: on the one hand, self-knowledge that directs our gaze inward, and on the other, the aspiration to know and transform the world in order to contribute to the realization of a more humane society. The tension between these two poles can be experienced at the individual level, but also at the social level. How do these two dimensions, inner and outer, of the spiritual life interact? Gerald Häfner's contribution will focus on this question.

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The speaker

Gerald Häfner has been head of the Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum since June 2016. A former Waldorf professor and publicist, he co-founded the German environmentalist party Bündnis 90/The Greens, of which he was president and regional director. He was a member of the German parliament between 1987 and 2002 and a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014, and he is behind numerous initiatives and foundations such as (among others) Mehr Demokratie, Democracy International or the German movement for an unconditional basic income.