Temperament

The four temperaments (Latin: temperamentum "the right measure, the right mixture", from temperare "to moderate, to mix"; used in the 16th century in the sense of "balanced mixture ratio" in pharmacy) determine the more or less permanent basic mood or disposition of a person. Basically, every human being has all four temperaments, which are individually mixed in the most diverse ways. Ideally, all four temperaments are in harmonic balance, but as a rule there are shifts in accent, which usually make one temperament more prominent, the two neighbouring ones resonate and the fourth, opposing one recedes into the background.

Literature

• Heinrich Eltz: Die menschlichen Temperamente, 3. Auflage, Verlag Paul Haupt, Bern - Stuttgart - Wien 2000, ISBN 978-3258049540
• Karl Rössel-Majdan: Vom Wunder der menschlichen Stimme. Sprachgestaltung. Troxler, Wien 1975
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Geheimnis der menschlichen Temperamente, Vortragsstellen von R. Steiner, ausgewählt und zusammengestellt von C. Englert-Faye, Zbinden Vlg., Basel 1985
• Rudolf Steiner: Wo und wie findet man den Geist?, GA 57 (1984) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Vor dem Tore der Theosophie, GA 95 (1990) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis, GA 100 (1981) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos, GA 119 (1988) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Farbenerkenntnis, GA 291a (1990) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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