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Thought-Forms
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The problems set by the “forms (or modes) of thought” have been treated under various names and from various viewpoints since the beginning of modern times. Differences in thought and styles of culture came to be consciously noted and analysed, and the experiences of the wars of religion led to human thought and knowledge being considered as something relative. This relativist view celebrated its greatest triumphs after the collapse of German Idealism into historicism in the 19th century. Comte speaks of various stages in man’s view of the world and concept of science, Brenta…

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Jörg Splett, “Thought-Forms”, in: Sacramentum Mundi Online, General Editor Karl Rahner, SJ. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-483X_smuo_COM_004420>
First published online: 2016



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