Glossary
Materialism in Anthroposophy
Materialism is the standpoint that treats matter as the sole reality and the senses as the sole witnesses to it. In Human and Cosmic Thought (1914) Rudolf Steiner places it...
Realism in Anthroposophy
In his 1914 Berlin cycle, Steiner sets Realism at the sign of Libra, the scales of his zodiac of thought. The realist does not dissolve the world into matter, as...
The Twelve World-Outlooks in Anthroposophy
The Twelve World-Outlooks are the twelve basic positions Rudolf Steiner held the thinking mind can take toward reality, presented across four 1914 Berlin lectures published as Human and Cosmic Thought....
Idealism in Anthroposophy
Idealism is the fifth of the twelve world-outlooks Rudolf Steiner set out in his Berlin lectures of January 1914. The idealist accepts the real, flowing world that surrounds us, yet...
Spiritualism in Anthroposophy
Spiritualism, in Rudolf Steiner's sense, is one of the twelve world-outlooks set out in his 1914 Berlin lectures, the standpoint of a person disposed to see in every material thing...
Goethean Morphology in Anthroposophy
Goethean morphology reads a plant or animal not as a built object but as a verb. Where a botanist of his day catalogued species, Goethe watched the leaf become sepal,...