Planets, Colors and Metals

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Submitted by ciuboda on 8 July, 2008 - 12:20.

"   Goethe would have foregone his poetry, his novels and perhaps the rest of his ouvre for the sole sake of his Theory of Colors. Johann Eckermann, the confidant of Goethe's later years, reports his friend's astonishing opinion: "In all the things I have written as a poet I find no cause for pride. But to have been the only person of my century to see clearly into this difficult science of colors, of that I am very proud indeed, and believe myself to be superior to many scientists."   For Goethe it was not so much a question of theoretical confirmation and scientific demonstration as it was a matter of understanding and truth. Color cannot be comprehended by instrumental reason. There are certain fields of knowledge that by their very nature elude the mathematical and instrumental approach of science. For through the investigation of colors runs the thread of Goethe's questioning with regard to the modernity of his century -- the century of Enlightenment rationalism -- and those mentalities which inflect discourse and mental representations. "I revere mathematics (...) but I cannot approve the desire to use it to abuse in areas outside its domain where this noble science seems absurd. As if there existed only that which could be demonstrated mathematically!"  Goethe took the matter of color to heart as a personal matter certainly not because of psycho-sociological dynamics (often as vulgar as they are illusory) put forward by the young Eckermann,  but rather because the issue engaged his entire being, beginning with his manner of understanding the world. The reasoning set out in the Theory of Colors, just as in the Metamorphosis of the Planets, is matrix-based, and Goethe was without doubt one of its foremost representatives in his century."

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