{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 1/l16/p056","lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here is where colour theory must therefore take its start. It must investigate the eye, must disclose its nature. This is why Goethe places *physiological* colour theory at the beginning. But even there his conception is essentially different from what one usually understands this part of optics to be. He does not want to explain the functions of the eye by its structure, but wants rather to observe the eye under various conditions in order to arrive at a knowledge of its capacities and abilities. Here also his procedure is essentially an *observational* one. What happens when light and darkness act upon the eye; what happens when defined images enter into relationship with it, etc.? He does not ask, to begin with, what processes occur within the eye when one or another perception comes about, but rather he seeks to fathom what can come about through the eye in the *living* act of seeing. For his purpose, that is to begin with the only important question. That other question does not belong, strictly speaking, to the realm of physiological colour theory, but rather to the science of the human organism, i.e., to general physiology. Goethe has to do with the eye only insofar as it sees, and not with the explanation of seeing that comes from the perceptions we can have of the dead eye.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"16. Goethe as Thinker and Investigator","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p056","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["MP1988"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l16/p056"},{"lang":"en","edition":"MP1988","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/1/l16/p056","paragraph_aligned":true}],"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 1/l16/p056","passage_number":56,"text":"Hier muß also die Farbenlehre einsetzen. Sie muß das Auge untersuchen, dessen Natur bloßlegen. Deshalb stellt Goethe die *physiologische* Farbenlehre an den Anfang. Aber seine Auffassung ist auch da von dem, was man gewöhnlich unter diesem Teile der Optik versteht, wesentlich verschieden. Er will nicht aus dem Baue des Auges dessen Funktionen erklären, sondern er will das Auge unter verschiedenen Bedingungen betrachten, um zur Erkenntnis seiner Fähigkeiten und Vermögen zu kommen. Sein Vorgang ist auch hier ein wesentlich *beobachtender.* Was stellt sich ein, wenn Licht und Finsternis auf das Auge wirken; was, wenn begrenzte Bilder in Beziehung zu demselben treten usw..? Er fragt zunächst nicht, welche Prozesse spielen sich im Auge ab, wenn diese oder jene Wahrnehmung zustande kommt, sondern er sucht zu ergründen, was durch das Auge im *lebendigen* Sehakt zustande kommen kann. Für seinen Zweck ist das zunächst die allein wichtige Frage. Die andere gehört streng genommen nicht in das Gebiet der physiologischen Farbenlehre, sondern in die Lehre von dem menschlichen Organismus, d. h. in die allgemeine Physiologie. Goethe hat es nur zu tun mit dem Auge, sofern es sieht und nicht mit der Erklärung des Sehens aus jenen Wahrnehmungen, die wir an dem toten Auge machen können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/1/l16/p056"}],"english":["GA 1/l16/p056"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":200,"en_words":225,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.14,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12330,"original_word_count":10769,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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