The Twelve World-Outlooks & Soul-Moods

The world-outlook that takes invisible force, not solid matter, as the ultimately real, explaining every event by the powers it supposes working behind appearances.

In Steiner's scheme, the soul-mood that takes whatever experience offers and waits, without reaching for a reality hidden behind it.

The soul-mood of knowing: the inner tone in which a person grasps the world through cognitional forces in the soul itself rather than through the senses.

The world-outlook that finds living ideas working at the root of the world process, so that outer reality has meaning only where ideas are grounded within it.

The soul-mood of pure thought, in which a person holds a world-outlook by ordering concept upon concept into one living organism of ideas, as Hegel did.

The world-outlook that grants reality only to sense-perceptible matter; for Steiner, one of twelve standpoints, true within its own sphere and blind beyond it.

The world-outlook that holds the cosmos to be real only insofar as it can be counted, measured and written as number.

The world-outlook that reality is a plurality of self-enclosed spiritual monads, each an inwardly active being; Steiner’s abstract Spiritism, sourced to Leibniz.

One of Steiner's seven soul-moods: the inward tone in which the quieted soul seeks the divine light in its own depths rather than behind outer things.

A soul-mood, not a doctrine: the inner tone that holds the real being of the world as hidden behind appearance and reachable only by an inward path.

The standpoint that grants reality only to the world as it appears, holding the phenomenon itself to be the furthest edge of what thinking can know.

The world-outlook that traces reality back to many spirit-beings, to pneuma, taking the step past psychism toward the spirits themselves.

The world-outlook that finds soul behind all things, reasoning that ideas can only live where beings exist to bear them.

The world-outlook that grants reality to the idea, but only to ideas read from external things, taking reason as a self-sufficient source of truth.

The world-outlook that takes what stands before the senses as simply real, weighing it at the balance-point between matter and idea.

The world-outlook that grants reality to nothing except bare sense-impressions, keeping the senses' report and discarding whatever mind adds to it.

The world-outlook that treats spirit as the sole reality and matter as its mere outer appearance, standing opposite materialism in Steiner's twelvefold scheme.

Steiner's twelve valid standpoints of thought, arranged like a zodiac, each true within its own domain and none true alone.

The soul-mood that grants the essence of things is real but stays behind perception, approaching the soul yet never flowing into it.

The soul-mood of the will: the inner tone in which a person lays hold of the world through willing, with Schopenhauer as Steiner's type-case.