Logism

Logism is a doctrine that assumes that the world is structured according to logical principles. In his lecture cycle "Human and Cosmic Thought" (GA 151), given in Berlin in 1914, Rudolf Steiner chracterised logism as one of the seven possible worldview moods which he assigned to the seven planetary spheres; logism corresponds to the Jupiter sphere.

„This worldview mood of logism consists preferably in the fact that the soul can put itself in the position of having real thoughts, concepts and ideas present in itself, of having these thoughts and ideas present in itself in such a way that such a soul comes from one concept or one thought to the other in the same way as, when one looks at a human organism, one comes from the eye to the nose and to the mouth and regards all this as belonging together, as it is with Hegel, where all the concepts that he can grasp arrange themselves into one great organism of concepts. That is a logical organism of concepts. Hegel was simply able to seek out and take up everything that can be found in the world as thought, to string thought together with thought and make an organism out of it: Logism! One can form logism as Hegel did, in the constellation of idealism, one can form it as Fichte did, in the constellation of psychism, and one can form it in other spiritual constellations. Again, logism is something that passes like a planet through the zodiacal images, that passes circularly through the twelve spiritual zodiacal images.“ (Lit.:GA 151, p. 52f)

Literature

• 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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