Glossary

Transcendentalism in Anthroposophy

Transcendentalism in Anthroposophy is one of the seven soul-moods Rudolf Steiner set out in Human and Cosmic Thought (GA 151, Berlin 1914), the tone he assigned to Mercury. It is...

Voluntarism in Anthroposophy

Voluntarism is the soul-mood in which the will, rather than thought or perception, becomes the key a person turns on the world. In Human and Cosmic Thought Steiner lists it...

Sensationalism in Anthroposophy

Sensationalism is the standpoint Rudolf Steiner names for the soul that trusts the senses alone. Such a thinker grants that phenomena surround us, yet treats every order the mind seems...

Dynamism in Anthroposophy

Dynamism is the eleventh of the twelve world-outlooks in Steiner's 1914 Berlin lectures, the standpoint of anyone who cannot rest content with bare matter yet does not climb to spirit-beings....

Phenomenalism in Anthroposophy

Phenomenalism, in Rudolf Steiner's survey of world-outlooks, is the view that accepts the spread-out world of colours and sounds yet declines to call it the real world. It can be...

Logism in Anthroposophy

Logism is the second of seven soul-moods Rudolf Steiner described in his 1914 Berlin lectures. It is not a picture of the world but a tone of soul: the disposition...