{"id":39576,"date":"2022-08-25T20:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=39576"},"modified":"2022-08-25T20:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:29:44","slug":"human-beings-as-an-organ-of-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/human-beings-as-an-organ-of-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Beings as\u00a0an Organ of Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iris Hennigfeld works on \u2039Goethe’s Natural Science as Phenomenology\u203a at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She is also co-editor of the English-language \u2039Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts\u203a at the University of Pittsburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phenomenology is not a technique that, once learned, could be applied uniformly to this or that field. Instead, the method is developed in the course of research on and with the phenomena \u2013 and with new phenomena in new ways. The corresponding organs of perception and cognition for the phenomena are only formed at the phenomena. Goethe confesses in a letter to Schiller that he \u00abdid not bring an organ with him to deal with the matter\u00bb but that he \u00abalways had to form it in and with the experience.\u00bb Only when a new \u2039organ\u203a of perception emerges on and with the phenomena can the method finally transform the whole person. The human being himself becomes a new, quasi-encompassing \u2039organ\u203a of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Free Science<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In phenomenology, the formation of the organs of knowledge does not only concern the scientific-theoretical mind. It is of existential importance for the whole human being. The first step towards this organ formation is abstaining from judgment or, in the words of Edmund Husserl, the founder of philosophical phenomenology, the phenomenological epoch. Through them, the researcher moves from a natural to a phenomenological attitude \u2013 a step that, for Husserl, is equivalent to a \u2039religious reversal\u203a. With the entry into the phenomenological attitude, the previous natural fulfillment of life is radically stopped. Human beings turn entirely around and realign themselves: researching, they are no longer naively directed to the objects of their experience or recognition but turn to the activities of their own life of consciousness. Only in this self-reflection can a new organ for the conception of the essence of things grow. Such a reversal is contrary to the flow of natural life, so it must be brought about consciously and willingly. To start phenomenologically without condition thus represents an act of freedom. Translation: Monika Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iris Hennigfeld works on \u2039Goethe’s Natural Science as Phenomenology\u203a at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. She is also co-editor of the English-language \u2039Goethe Lexicon of Philosophical Concepts\u203a at the University of Pittsburgh. Phenomenology is not a technique that, once learned, could be applied uniformly to this or that field. Instead, the method is developed in the course of research on and with the phenomena \u2013 and with new phenomena in new ways. The corresponding organs of perception and cognition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9200,"featured_media":39488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8825,8807,2515],"tags":[10627,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-39576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-sciences","category-germany","category-nachricht","tag-2022-27-28-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}