| 书目名称 | Goethe and the Sciences: A Reappraisal | | 编辑 | Frederick Amrine,Francis J. Zucker,Harvey Wheeler | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | of him in like measure within myself, that is my highest wish. This noble individual was not conscious of the fact that at that very moment the divine within him and the divine of the universe were most intimately united. So, for Goethe, the resonance with a natural rationality seems part of the genius of modern science. Einstein‘s ‘cosmic religion‘, which reflects Spinoza, also echoes Goethe‘s remark (Ibid. , Item 575 from 1829): Man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible. Else he would give up investigating. But how far will Goethe share the devotion of these cosmic rationalists to the beautiful harmonies of mathematics, so distant from any pure and ‘direct observation‘? Kepler, Spinoza, Einstein need not, and would not, rest with discovery of a pattern within, behind, as a source of, the phenomenal world, and they would not let even the most profound of descriptive generalities satisfy scientific curiosity. For his part, Goethe sought fundamental archetypes, as in his intuition of a Urpjlanze, basic to all plants, infinitely plastic. When such would be found, Goethe would be content, for (as he said to Eckermann, Feb. 18, 1829): . . . to seek someth | | 出版日期 | Book 1987 | | 关键词 | history of science; philosophy of science; science; theory of science | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3761-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-2400-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-3761-1Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 | | issn_series | 0068-0346 | | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987 |
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