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Goethean science concerns the natural philosophy (German Naturphilosophie "philosophy of nature") of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Although primarily known as a literary figure, Goethe did research in morphology, anatomy, and optics.
- Birthing Ecological and Evolutionary Thought
- The Metamorphosis of The Scientist
- Today and For The Future
As we have seen, adequate understanding in Goethe’s view can only be gained when we consider the relations and connections in which any given thing is embedded. This is ecology understood as a way of knowing. It is not a matter of content, because it applies to the way we study any phenomena, whether they be rocks, cells, or whole organisms. It lea...
You could say that it was Goethe’s gift to sense that he was encountering something of immeasurable depth and potency in every meeting with the natural world. To come closer to that depth and potency without destroying it was his aim: “An organic being is externally so many-sided and internally so manifold and inexhaustible that we cannot choose en...
Good Science“Goethe’s understanding of scientific procedure marked him not simply as a good scientist for the time, but a good scientist for all time” (Richards 2002, p. 408). Historian and philosopher of science Robert Richards comes to this conclusion based on extensive research into Goethe’s scientific writings. Because Goethe realized that scie...
Nov 10, 2021 · Taking Goethe’s answer that “the history of science is science itself”, I investigate what Goethean science is by locating it within the history of science. I’ll outline the direction of my answer below.
This article by Craig Holdrege presents the Goethean approach via a practical example (a study of a plant, skunk cabbage) and discusses some of the essential features of Goethean methodology and insight: the riddle; into the phenomenon; exact picture building; and seeing the whole.
Goethe praised Francis Bacon for his advocacy of science based on experiment and his forceful revolution in thought as one of the greatest strides forward in modern science. [135] However, he was critical of Bacon's inductive method and approach based on pure classification. [ 136 ]
Goethean Science GA 1. Rudolf Steiner went to Weimar to edit the scientific writings of Goethe for the Kürschner edition of the “German National Literature.”
Feb 12, 2017 · Goethean science developed Goethe’s method by expanding it to a participatory process that engages communities of practitioners through cooperative research and consensus.
