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By Henri Bortoft
While so much readers are acquainted with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are accustomed to his medical paintings. during this very good e-book, Henri Bortoft (who begun his reviews of Goethean technology with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the interesting medical theories of Goethe. He succeeds in displaying that Goethe’s approach of doing technology was once no longer a poet’s folly yet a real replacement to the dominant medical paradigm.
Bortoft indicates various, "gentler" form of empiricism is feasible than that demanded by means of the dualizing brain of contemporary technological technology and demonstrates that Goethe’s participatory phenomenology of a brand new approach of seeing―while faraway from being a old curiosity―in truth proposes a realistic strategy to the dilemmas of up to date, postmodern technological know-how.
should you learn just one booklet on Goethan technology, this could be the only!
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For apprehending them quantitatively, but it does not take us into the reality of movement and change as a mode of being. ' It is important to realize that this is not a change in the content of consciousness, as if there were some element which previously had been overlooked, but a change in the mode of consciousness. , in their mode of togetherness. I MODES OF CONSCIOUSNESS • • 65 These examples illustrate very clearly the way that the holistic mode of consciousness can be entered into by plunging into looking, which means by the redeployment of attention into sense perception and away from the verbal—intellectual mind.
There is nothing backstage. There is only the phenomenon itself, but this has another dimension to it, a further aspect which is not a sensory element at all. This is the dimension of wholeness, which is the unity of the phenomenon. For Goethe, the theory is seeing this intensive dimension of the phenomenon. " This dimension of the phenomenon is not seen by the senses, and not by the sightless fancies of the verbal—intellectual mind. It is seen intuitively by a change of consciousness. But it has to be remembered all the time that, when this dimension of the phenomenon is seen, the elements are the same as in the sensory phenomenon—the difference is in the way that they are related.
Discovery in science is always the perception of meaning, and it could not be otherwise. The essence of a discovery is therefore in the nonempirical factor in cognition. ' Of course, the meaning in question may be several stages removed from the meaning in everyday cognition, and at a much more comprehensive level. Such is the case, for example, with the meanings which are the most widely embracing scientific theories. But enough has now been said about the nature of scientific knowledge for us to be able to understand it more adequately.