Glossary

Ethical Individualism

Ethical individualism is the moral position Rudolf Steiner sets out in The Philosophy of Freedom (GA 4, 1894): the free human act issues from a moral intuition the individual grasps...

Life-Spirit

Life-Spirit is the sixth member of the human being in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, the spiritualised etheric body that arises when the I consciously transforms life-forces. Called Lebensgeist in German and...

Spirit-Self

Spirit-Self (Geistselbst, Manas) is the fifth member of the human being in Steiner's anthropology, the astral body transmuted by the conscious I.

Sentient Soul

The Sentient Soul (German: Empfindungsseele) is the lowest of the three soul-members Rudolf Steiner identifies in Theosophy (GA 9, 1904). It is the inner fountain of activity that responds to...

Intellectual Soul

The Intellectual Soul (Verstandes-Gemütsseele) is, in Rudolf Steiner's Theosophy, the second of three soul-members standing between the sentient soul below and the consciousness soul above.

Consciousness Soul

The Consciousness Soul (Bewusstseinsseele) is the third and highest of the three soul-members in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy: the part of the inner life where truth lives independent of personal feeling,...