Matthew David Segall (@footnotes2plato): "THIS. We have so much to learn from Goethe, who was not just a poetic genius, not just a privy counselor to the Duke of Weimar, but a scientist of world-historical importance. https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/goethes-study-of-metamorphosis-in?r=2at642&utm

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THIS. We have so much to learn from Goethe, who was not just a poetic genius, not just a privy counselor to the Duke of Weimar, but a scientist of world-historical importance.

Goethe's Study of Metamorphosis in Light, Leaf, and Bone

A transcript of my lecture from a course I taught for Schumacher College a few years ago on the Organic Science of Goethe and Whitehead

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is perhaps the greatest modern critic of the idea that objectification is necessary for science.

Goethe believed mechanistic science achieves power by:

deadening phenomena,
abstracting from lived form,

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Goethe's Study of Metamorphosis in Light, Leaf, and Bone

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