Glossary

Thinking, Feeling, and Willing in Anthroposophy

Thinking, feeling, and willing are the three basic activities of the human soul as Rudolf Steiner described them. Thinking grasps the world in concepts, feeling colours experience through sympathy and...

Antipathy and Sympathy in Anthroposophy

Antipathy and sympathy, in Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy, are the two fundamental forces of the soul. Antipathy reflects pre-natal experience back into thinking, memory, and concept, and lives physically in the...

Naive Realism in Anthroposophy

Naive realism is the position, examined by Rudolf Steiner in his 1894 epistemology, that the world delivered by the senses is reality entire. It treats the percept as the only...

Ethical Monism in Anthroposophy

Ethical monism in Anthroposophy is Rudolf Steiner's account, set out in The Philosophy of Freedom (1894), of a single unified reality known through percept and concept, in which moral ideals...

The Good in Anthroposophy

The Good in Anthroposophy is the moral worth of a deed performed out of love for the action itself, not from duty or external command. In The Philosophy of Freedom...

Moral Technique in Anthroposophy

Moral technique is the third faculty of free moral action in Rudolf Steiner's ethics: the practical ability to realize a moral idea in the existing world. Moral imagination conceives the...