{"id":45659,"date":"2023-03-09T17:13:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=45659"},"modified":"2024-04-16T12:45:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:45:58","slug":"thinking-becomes-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/thinking-becomes-seeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Becomes Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"When perception and meaning appear to us as a unity in an image, we recognize them as landmarks or imaginations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u2039Imagination\u203a is one of the more complex concepts of Anthroposophy, which is difficult to understand based on cultural and epistemological theory. On the cultural level, it is accompanied by a deep-seated fear of the image, which oscillates between early Christian iconoclasm and the modern will for abstraction. Simply put, this can be described as a deep distrust of the pictorial because it is not the object but its simulation, which appears untruthful and incapable of being real. For epistemology, the imagination is too deeply rooted in the subjective to lead to universal truth. The vision of celestial beings as winged humanoids seems to philosophers to be a fantasy <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When perception and meaning appear to us as a unity in an image, we recognize them as landmarks or imaginations. \u2039Imagination\u203a is one of the more complex concepts of Anthroposophy, which is difficult to understand based on cultural and epistemological theory. On the cultural level, it is accompanied by a deep-seated fear of the image, which oscillates between early Christian iconoclasm and the modern will for abstraction. Simply put, this can be described as a deep distrust of the pictorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9148,"featured_media":44211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8793,11474,8839],"tags":[11289,8798],"class_list":["post-45659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-imagination-inspiration-intuition-en","category-nature-experience","tag-2023-3-4-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659","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\/9148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}