The Archetypal Phenomenon

The Archetypal Phenomenon : Guide for a Goethean Approach to Natural Science

Introduction: In several ways the world-view of the German poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) could be paradigmatic for a different approach to Nature, since Goethe was also an outstanding natural scientist. However his scientific discoveries are much less known than his dramatic and poetic works because they did not fit the conceptual system of natural science of the 19th and 20th centuries. Nevertheless his contributions should not be ignored, since they might be the missing stone to a puzzle of finding a new approach to Nature, where the wholeness does not have to be divided between consciousness and matter, and where natural substance does not need to be cut up into molecules and atoms.

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About the Author

Friedemann-Eckart Schwarzkopf, PhD (philosophy), was born in 1947 in Germany. He is an attorney, writer, and lecturer and teaches philosophy and theory of natural science at Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, California. His focus is to observe the light of human awareness and how it molds our shared reality. He is the translator and editor of several books as well as a book and numerous articles by the Hungarian scientist and philosopher Georg Kuhlewind.