Chapter 15: Goethean Worldview – Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

Today’s Inspiring Reads discovered during my searches for Goethe on matter and spirit

Sep 21, 2024

My favourite – the one that resonated with me the most – a quote from Annie Dillard’s essay: What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn’t us? What is the difference between a cathedral and…

[Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…

May 28, 2020

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I am getting bogged down with my first chapter. It largely covers Ancient Greek philosophical insights into many of the important matters that are to be explored in later chapters of this book. Every single one of these philosophers (at least the most significant figures up to and including Aristotle)…

[Old] Chapter 13: Goethe’s World View [New Ch.15 V0.1]

Apr 18, 2020

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an observer of nature and laid the foundations for a phenomenological science. His collected scientific works were edited by Rudolf Steiner. Goethe’s ideas and methodologies inspired Herzeele, Preuss and Holleman. Holleman recommended that the biological transmutation phenomenon might best be studied using a Goethean scientific methodology. Unfortunately he did not…

Heisenberg on Goethe

Feb 22, 2020

I have been aware of Werner Heisenberg’s respect for Goethe the scientist for some time, so was very happy to discover his 1952 lectures on “Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science”. I give below a verbatim copy of the text of his fifth lecture….

[Old] Biochemistry

Jan 24, 2020

End of vitalism – biology – physiology – becomes a branch of chemistry – homeostasis – a system of interconnecting nutrient cycles – cells – membranes – enzymes – genetic code – DNA…