@article{10.18756/jfg.2007.9, title = {{Goetheanismus als{\guillemotright}Erdung{\guillemotleft}der Anthroposophie - Die Bedeutung der Sinneswahrnehmung f{\"u}r die goetheanistische und anthroposophische Erkenntnismethode}}, shorttitle = {{Goetheanismus als{\guillemotright}Erdung{\guillemotleft}der Anthroposophie - Die Bedeutung der Sinneswahrnehmung f{\"u}r die goetheanistische und anthroposophische Erkenntnismethode}}, author = {SUCHANTKE , ANDREAS }, journal = {Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus}, year = {2007}, volume = {2007}, pages = {9--32}, url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2007.9}, doi = {10.18756/jfg.2007.9}, issn = {Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 }, language = {de}, abstract = {}, annote = {Goetheanism as a grounding of anthroposophy The meaning of sense perception for Goetheanistic and anthroposophical methods of knowledgeConsciously conducted and controlled Goethean study takes place by the following steps characterised approximately1 Perception is fully focused on the object and carries out with it all the movements of its form and structuring without any interpretation of them but keeps every perception in mind as exactly as possible As research shows in this kind of intense perception the subject is actively involved without critically reflecting the object just doing it i e drawing it making notes etc active devotion sentient soul2 In the second step the experiences are lifted to the level of designating them with concepts although such designations have only the character of analogy just serving the process of becoming conscious without having any knowledge value They are purely for sharpening attention and exactness of memory intellectual soul3 In the next step the observer repeatedly dwells meditatively on the pictorial sensorial experiences and the movements of the form experienced inwardly are carried out again This has to be done in conformity with the object in such a conceptually clear way that the resulting concept is not rigid but movable open for new extending and possibly even completely changing experiences consciousness soulThe reader of the following paper may wish to keep these three steps in mind and verify them If it is thought that proceeding in this way is unnecessary and instead that it is possible to interpret the phenomena of the sense world With statements of spiritual science then this will lead to the opposite Phenomena will be interpreted according to ones own world view as happens everywhere whether be is spiritualist materialist or as is currently back in fashion creationist This has nothing to do with true knowledge or being scientific} }