{"id":63729,"date":"2025-02-26T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=63729"},"modified":"2025-02-26T19:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:32:56","slug":"matter-isnt-made-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/matter-isnt-made-of-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter Isn\u2019t Made of Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"Chemist Martin Rozumek and biologist Hans-Christian Zehnter have written separately on the subject of how the world can be understood without an atomistic conception of matter. They see earthly reality as an appearance specifically intended for us human beings. This has methodological and existential consequences for our relation to the world. They decided to write a joint essay for Das Goetheanum to accompany the publication of their recent articles in Merkurstab (Martin Rozumek)Martin Rozumek, \u201cMaterie als Ph\u00e4nomen, Geist als selbstbewusste Aktivit\u00e4t: Versuch, einen unaufl\u00f6sbaren Gegensatz zu transformieren\u201d [Matter as phenomenon, spirit as self-conscious activity: an attempt to transform an irresolvable contradiction] Der Merkurstab [The Staff of Mercury] no. 4 (2023): 248?<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>Chemist Martin Rozumek and biologist Hans-Christian Zehnter have written separately on the subject of how the world can be understood without an atomistic conception of matter. They see earthly reality as an appearance specifically intended for us human beings. This has methodological and existential consequences for our relation to the world. They decided to write a joint essay for Das Goetheanum to accompany the publication of their recent articles in Merkurstab (Martin Rozumek)Martin Rozumek, \u201cMaterie als Ph\u00e4nomen, Geist als selbstbewusste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21415,"featured_media":63159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8839,8793],"tags":[11621,8798,11622],"class_list":["post-63729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-nature-experience","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-7-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-9-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729","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\/21415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}