{"id":66386,"date":"2025-06-10T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66386"},"modified":"2025-06-11T23:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T21:20:48","slug":"from-effects-to-essence-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/from-effects-to-essence-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"From Effects to Essence and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"Goethe developed a new method for studying nature, both inorganic and organic. His intention was to uncover the natural law\u2014the essence, the being, the idea\u2014of a thing by introducing a special way of beholding the phenomena\u2014the manifestations of the thing\u2014in order to gain knowledge and insight. This approach was not being pursued by the conventional, supposedly \u201cobjective,\u201d sciences of his time, and it was not possible for anyone holding on to a pre-scientific, naive view of the world. Goethe\u2019s approach requires a certain exertion of the soul in order to prepare the necessary conditions that allow a thing to reveal its essence to human consciousness. The other side of this challenge is seeing the appearances of the thing for what they truly are and making correct judgments ab<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>Goethe developed a new method for studying nature, both inorganic and organic. His intention was to uncover the natural law\u2014the essence, the being, the idea\u2014of a thing by introducing a special way of beholding the phenomena\u2014the manifestations of the thing\u2014in order to gain knowledge and insight. This approach was not being pursued by the conventional, supposedly \u201cobjective,\u201d sciences of his time, and it was not possible for anyone holding on to a pre-scientific, naive view of the world. Goethe\u2019s approach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9200,"featured_media":66099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,8848,8825],"tags":[11664,8798,11665],"class_list":["post-66386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-literature","category-natural-sciences","tag-ausgabe-22-2025-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-24-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66386","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=66386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}