Glossary

The Sense of Thought in Anthroposophy

The sense of thought is the faculty Rudolf Steiner names as the perceiver of another being's concepts. Where the sense of word registers spoken language, the thought-sense reaches through the...

The Sense of Warmth in Anthroposophy

The sense of warmth is the human sense by which we register heat and cold as living qualities of the world around us. Rudolf Steiner counted it among the twelve...

The Sense of Taste in Anthroposophy

The sense of taste is, for Rudolf Steiner, the point where the soul first takes a substance into itself and judges its quality from within. In his scheme of twelve...

The Sense of Word in Anthroposophy

The sense of word, also called the sense of speech or word-sense, is the faculty that lets us understand what another person says. It is not the ear that hears...

The Sense of Touch in Anthroposophy

The Sense of Touch in Anthroposophy is the first of Rudolf Steiner's twelve senses, the sense by which a person perceives the felt boundary between self and world, registering hardness,...

The Sense of Sight in Anthroposophy

The sense of sight is, for Rudolf Steiner, the eye's perception of colour and light, and the fourth of his twelve senses counting outward from touch. It carries us further...