Glossary
Mental Pictures in Anthroposophy
A mental picture is the soul's own image of an experience, the representation (Vorstellung) that stays behind once a concept has been joined to a percept. Steiner places it between...
The Will in Anthroposophy
The will is the soul-force through which a human being acts, and in Steiner's account it is the least conscious of the three soul-activities. We know the thought that precedes...
Truth and Knowledge in Anthroposophy
Truth and Knowledge names the theory of cognition Rudolf Steiner set out in his 1892 doctoral dissertation. The world first reaches us as bare perception, a horizon of disconnected appearances....
Freedom in Anthroposophy
In Steiner's spiritual science, freedom is not the bare power to do as one pleases but the capacity to act from a moral idea grasped by one's own intuition. A...
Enthusiasm in Anthroposophy
Enthusiasm in Anthroposophy is the warming force that carries the soul toward an ideal. Rudolf Steiner reads the word through its Greek root en-theos, the god within, and treats this...
Moral Imagination in Anthroposophy
Moral imagination is Steiner's name for the inventive act at the heart of free moral life. Where ordinary ethics hands down rules, moral imagination produces the one fitting deed a...