{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 157/1915-03-02_02/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You see, speaking of the physical world people speak of monist philosophy, of there being only one ultimate substance or principle, frequently saying to themselves: ‘I can only understand the world if I see the whole of it as a unity.’ We have had some strange experiences particularly in this respect. When we started our spiritual movement here in Berlin with just a few members—that is quite a few years ago now—people found their way to us who then discovered that after all they could not feel they belonged to us in every fibre of their being. There was a lady, for instance, who after a few months came and told us that what spiritual science had to offer was not really the right thing for her, for it meant one had to do a great deal of thinking and thinking wiped out exactly the things that were important to her. She said she always sort of went to sleep when thinking. She also felt that really there was only thing that counted, and that was unity! It became evident that in her case the unity of the world which monists look for in all kinds of spheres—and not only the materialists among monists—had become a fixed idea: Unity, unity, unity! She wanted to look only for unity. In the intellectual life of Germany, one particular philosopher, Leibniz, was very much a monadologist. He sought not unity, but the many monads[^1] which for him were ensouled entities. He therefore knew quite clearly that as soon as one enters into the spiritual world it can be a matter only of plurality, not of unity. And so there are monists and pluralists. These views are considered philosophies. The monists fight the pluralists who are speaking in terms of plurality; they themselves only speak of unity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"8. 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So zum Beispiel fand sich eine Dame, die nach einigen Monaten zu uns kam und sagte: Das alles tauge eigentlich für sie nicht, was die Geisteswissenschaft vorzubringen in der Lage sei, denn da müsse man zuviel denken, und das Denken, das lösche bei ihr alles aus, was ihr gerade wertvoll sei; sie komme immer in eine Art von Einschlafen beim Denken. Und außerdem meine sie, daß es ja nur ein Wertvolles gebe — das sei die Einheit! Nun erwies es sich, daß die Einheit der Welt, die der Monist auch sucht auf den mannigfaltigsten Gebieten - nicht bloß der materialistische Monist -, bei ihr wie zu einer fixen Idee geworden war: Einheit, Einheit, Einheit! Sie wollte durchaus die Einheit suchen. — Nun haben wir einen deutschen Philosophen, Leibniz, in der deutschen Geistesentwickelung, einen entschieden monadologischen Philosophen, der nicht die Einheit gesucht hat, sondern die vielen Monaden, die für ihn seelische Wesen waren -, der also das klar wußte: sobald man in die geistige Welt kommt, da kann es sich nicht um eine Einheit handeln, sondern nur um eine Vielheit. So gibt es Monisten und Pluralisten. Das sieht man als Weltanschauungen an. 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