Kant and Goethe: On the History of the Modern Weltanschauung  

Oleh:

Simmel, Georg

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 24 no. 6 (Nov. 2007), page 159-192.
Topik: art ¦ Kant ¦ Goethe ¦ nature ¦ subjectivity ¦ worldview
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In this article, Simmel compares and contrasts the philosophical Weltanschauungen of Kant and Goethe. Simmel points out that whereas Kant’s solution to the problem of knowledge and understanding involved the separation of subject from object, the mediation of senses through the concept and internalization of nature as representation, Goethe sought to unify subject and object through the ideation of the senses and the immersion of the subject in nature. Simmel points out that for Goethe the philosophical first principle was life, Leben, not reason. For Goethe thought is an organic expression of Leben, not the result of an imaginative synthesis of sensory intuitions. At the end of the article Simmel seems to suggest that the modern philosophers must decide: Kant or Goethe! – A choice between mechanism and vitalism; ontological separation and immersion.

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