{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In my opinion, Goethe’s color theory offers the first beginning of a really reasonable consideration of the soul and physical life, something that has been previously unrecognized. Yet today all one needs to do to be immediately branded a dilettante is speak about it in a positive way. I believe, however, that physicists will soon see it much differently from the way it is seen at present. I do not intend to go on praising Goethe’s theory of color today, I only want to direct your attention to the wonderful chapter where Goethe begins to speak about physiological colors, and to another chapter toward the end, where he speaks about the sensory and moral effects of colors. Physicists have attempted to refute the portion in between. The beginning and the end have been of more interest to people with an artistic nature, and they can more easily understand them. However, for us to develop a scientific foundation of education, we need to accept some of the help offered by Goethe’s considerations of the world of colors. In the beginning, Goethe draws our attention to the lively interaction between the eye and the external world. That lively interaction exists not only while we are exposing the eye to some color process in the external world, but also afterward. Goethe specifically discusses the after-images that result from the direct impression. You all know these after-images, which occur in the eye itself. You need only expose your eye to, say, a green surface and then turn away from this sharply delineated green area. You will see the same area as an after-effect that is subjectively red. The organ is still influenced for a time by what it experienced in the external world. This is the basic process as it occurs in the sense organs. Something happens in the sense organs while they are exposed to a process or to things in the external world, and something else happens afterward, which then slowly subsides. From an external perspective, we also can see a certain similarity between what briefly takes place in a sense organ and what happens in the human organism in regard to memory. Just as the green surface continues for a short time as red, a thought with its associated images resulting from a direct experience exists in our organism, only the time periods are quite different.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. 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Aber ich will heute nicht auf eine Würdigung der Goetheschen Farbenlehre eingehen, sondern will Sie nur verweisen auf das schöne Kapitel, wo Goethe am Anfange über die physiologischen Farben spricht, und auf das andere schöne Kapitel, wo er mehr gegen das Ende über die sinnlich-sittliche Wirkung der Farben spricht. Der mittlere Teil ist ja namentlich das von den Physikern Angefochtene. Der Anfang und das Ende - sie werden mehr beurteilt, auch heute noch, von künstlerischen Naturen, und die kommen leichter mit der Sache zurecht. Aber es wäre auch notwendig, daß man da für eine naturwissenschaftliche Grundlegung der Pädagogik einmal versuchte Hilfe zu gewinnen aus dieser Betrachtung, die Goethe gegenüber der Farbenwelt einhält.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":177,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-22/p014"},{"locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Goethe macht da im Anfang ganz besonders darauf aufmerksam, wie eine lebendige Wechselwirkung besteht zwischen dem Organ des Auges und der Außenwelt; nicht nur eine lebendige Wechselwirkung, die so lange dauert, als wir das Auge irgendeinem Farbenvorgange in der Außenwelt exponieren, sondern auch noch nachher. Goethe behandelt ja ganz besonders die Nachbilder, die sich als Folge des unmittelbaren Eindrucks ergeben. Sie kennen alle diese Nachbilder, die sich im Sinnesorgane selbst, also in diesem speziellen Falle im Auge ergeben. Sie brauchen bloß eine Zeitlang das Auge zu exponieren, sagen wir irgendeiner grünen Fläche, von dieser grünen, scharf umrissenen Fläche weg auf weiß zu schauen, und Sie werden dieselbe Fläche in der Nachwirkung subjektiv rot sehen. Nachwirkungen ergeben sich. Das Organ steht eine Zeitlang noch unter der Einwirkung dessen, was es mit der Außenwelt erlebt hat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":134,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-22/p015"},{"locus":"GA 301/1920-04-22/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Sehen Sie, das ist der elementare Vorgang, wie er sich in den Sinnesorganen abspielt. In den Sinnesorganen spielt sich etwas ab in der Zeit, in welcher das Sinnesorgan dem Vorgange oder den Dingen der Außenwelt exponiert ist, und es spielt sich nachher noch etwas ab, um dann abzuklingen. Aber schon äußerlich wird der Mensch doch eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit bemerken können zwischen dem, was sich im Sinnesorgan da in kurzer Zeit abspielt, und dem, was sich abspielt im menschlichen Organismus für das Erinnerungsvermögen, für das Gedächtnis. So wie das Rot dem Grün nachklingt kurze Zeit, so klingt nach aus dem Organismus heraus die Erinnerungsvorstellung der unmittelbar erlebten Vorstellung. 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