Glossary

Gnosis in Anthroposophy

Gnosis in Anthroposophy is the first of Rudolf Steiner's seven soul-moods, the knowing-tone in which any of the twelve world-outlooks can be held. It names the disposition of a soul...

Rationalism in Anthroposophy

Rationalism, in Rudolf Steiner's survey of human thought, is the outlook that finds ideas at work in the world and treats the reasoning mind as competent to read them. It...

Monadism in Anthroposophy

Monadism is the standpoint that the world is a community of countless monads, spiritual unit-beings each shut within itself, perceiving and developing concepts from its own depths. Steiner ranks it...

Pneumatism in Anthroposophy

Pneumatism is one of the twelve legitimate world-outlooks Rudolf Steiner sets out in Human and Cosmic Thought. It is the standpoint that explains the world out of spirit, out of...

Mathematism in Anthroposophy

Mathematism is the standpoint of the thinker who keeps no picture of the universe except its calculable form. Steiner places it just above raw materialism: the atoms have dropped away,...

Psychism in Anthroposophy

Psychism is one of the twelve world-outlooks Rudolf Steiner mapped in his 1914 Berlin lectures, and it is the standpoint that ensouls the world. Where the Idealist sees ideas governing...