Worldview

A worldview describes the basic spiritual attitude from which the experienced reality is viewed. Rudolf Steiner distinguished twelve fundamental worldviews, which in their totality form a spiritual image of the zodiac for the human soul. Each worldview in itself is a one-sidedness; only through the living wholeness of all 12 worldviews can an all-round satisfying picture of the world be gained. Each of these twelve world views can be nuanced by 7 worldview moods, which cosmically correspond to the planetary system.

Literature

• Sigismund von Gleich: Die Wahrheit als Gesamtumfang aller Weltansichten, J.Ch.Mellinger Vlg., Stuttgart 1989
• Mario Betti: Zwölf Wege, die Welt zu verstehen, 2. Auflage, Vlg. Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3772521621
• Corinna Gleide/Ralf Gleide: Der Sternhimmel der Vernunft: Über den Weg der zwölf Weltanschauungen, Verlag Freies Geistesleben & Urachhaus GmbH, Stuttgart 2008; ISBN 978-3-7725-1435-7
• Rudolf Steiner: Der menschliche und der kosmische Gedanke, GA 151 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-1510-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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