Spirit

Spirit (Latin: spiritus; Greek: πνεῦμα pneuma or νοῦς nous; German: Geist, from Indo-European: *gheis-, "to be excited, upset, shudder") is the source of all creative activity and its basic activity consists in constantly creating itself anew out of itself as spirit, as it is symbolically indicated for instance by the image of the bird phoenix. Therefore, one can only speak of real, i.e. actually acting spirit, insofar as it is directly active in reality (in the broadest sense) creating and shaping. What is called "mind" in English and is equated mostly wrongly with the spirit, is only its powerless, brain-bound unreal mental mirror image. The brain itself, however, is - like the whole human organism - a product of the spirit.

Literature

• Karl-Heinz Tritschler: Der blinde Fleck. In: Wochenschrift "Das Goetheanum", Nr. 24, 16.06.2012, S. 8 - 9.
• Johannes Weinzirl (Hrsg.), Peter Heusser (Hrsg.): Was ist Geist?, Wittener Kolloquium für Humanismus, Medizin und Philosophie, Band 2, Königshausen u. Neumann 2014, ISBN 978-3826052224
• Joachim Adler: Die Begriffe des Geistes, Dissertation 2014, University of Zurich, Philosophische Fakultät doi:10.5167/uzh-135264 pdf
• Rudolf Steiner: Theosophie, GA 9 (2002), Kapitel Die geistige Wesenheit des Menschen, ISBN 3-7274-0090-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org}
• Rudolf Steiner: Antworten der Geisteswissenschaft auf die großen Fragen des Daseins, GA 60 (1983) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org}
• Rudolf Steiner: Damit der Mensch ganz Mensch werde, GA 82 (1994), ISBN 3-7274-0820-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die geistigen Hintergründe des Ersten Weltkrieges, GA 174b (1994), ISBN 3-7274-1742-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Menschenfragen und Weltenantworten, GA 213 (1987) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die geistig-seelischen Grundkräfte der Erziehungskunst. Spirituelle Werte in Erziehung und sozialem Leben., GA 305 (1991) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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