Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
(1749–1832)
German man of letters. As a philosopher the great writer is mainly interesting as an influence on others, particularly
Schiller and
Schelling . Goethe was influenced by
Spinoza's pantheism,
Leibniz's panpsychism, and the moral philosophy of
Kant, but he confessed his own lack of a ‘proper organ for philosophy’; something of his lack of rigour can be seen in the remark that ‘we are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality’. However his work on
colour, inspired by a temperamental revulsion from
Newton's purely mathematical theory of the spectrum, has been rediscovered and re-evaluated in the light of recent work.
Philosophy dictionary.
Academic.
2011.
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