{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 151/1914-01-21/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A person with this outlook does not come so far as to picture to himself the individual spiritual beings in concrete terms, as the Spiritist does, but he reflects in the world upon the spiritual element in the world, allowing it to remain indefinite. He calls it “Monad”—that is, he conceives of it only as though one were to say: “Yes, there is spirit in the world and there are spirits, but I describe them only by saying, ‘They are entities having varying powers of perception.’ I pick out from them an abstract characteristic. So I form for myself this one-sided world-outlook, on behalf of which as much as can be said has been said by the highly intelligent Leibnitz. In this way I develop Monadism.” *Monadism* is an abstract Spiritism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Twelve Worldviews: The Zodiac of Philosophical Standpoints","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Das Genauere habe ich in meinem Buche «Die Rätsel der Philosophie» dargestellt. Er war der Anschauung, daß es ein Wesen gibt, das in sich die Existenz erbilden kann, wie zum Beispiel die Menschenseele. Aber er machte sich nicht weitere Begriffe darüber. Er sagte sich nur, daß es ein solches Wesen gibt, das in sich die Existenz erbilden kann, das Vorstellungen aus sich heraustreibt. Das ist für Leibniz eine Monade. Und er sagte sich: Es muß viele Monaden geben und Monaden von der verschiedensten Klarheit. Wenn ich hier eine Glocke habe, so sind dort viele Monaden drinnen - wie in einem Mückenschwarm -, aber Monaden, die nicht einmal bis zum Schlafbewußtsein kommen, Monaden, die fast unbewußt sind, die aber doch dunkelste Vorstellungen in sich entwickeln. Es gibt Monaden, die träumen, es gibt Monaden, die wache Vorstellungen in sich entwickeln, kurz, Monaden der verschiedensten Grade. — Ein solcher. Mensch kommt nicht dazu, sich das Konkrete der einzelnen geistigen Wesenheiten so vorzustellen wie der Spiritualist; aber er reflektiert in der Welt auf das Geistige, das er nur unbestimmt sein läßt. Er nennt es Monade, das heißt, er kümmert sich nur um den Vorstellungscharakter, als wenn man sagen würde: Ja, Geist, Geister sind in der Welt; aber ich beschreibe sie nur so, daß ich sage, sie sind verschiedenartig vorstellende Wesen. Eine abstrakte Eigenschaft nehme ich aus ihnen heraus. Da bilde ich mir diese einseitige Weltanschauung aus, für die vor allem so viel vorgebracht werden kann, als der geistvolle Leibniz für sie vorgebracht hat. 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