Rudolf Steiner’s considerations on historical knowledge

scientific responsibility and poetic narrative.

Abstract

Inspired by the epistemological pluralism of Paul Feyerabend, this text deals with the considerations of Rudolf Steiner on History and how they are imbued with a perspective of scientific responsibility and a poetic language. We analyzed, at first, his study of history when he was inserted in the academic environment, in which he began his approach to the scientific works of Johann W. von Goethe and, as a result, his first methodological considera íons about history. Later, in the development of his own understanding of history, Steiner would have intensified these considerations in 1917, after the elaboration of a theory of knowledge and his own Antroposophy. Confronting the historical knowledge that incorporates in his narrative the impulses arising from empiricism and rationalism without taking into account the historical complexity, Steiner returned to the human being to think about the care and possibilities of the way of thinking of(s) historians(as).