Foundations of Science ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2025-05-22 , DOI: 10.1007/s10699-025-09983-2
Boris Kožnjak
The article demonstrates the historically and philosophically overlooked common phenomenological roots of Goethe’s Farbenlehre and Plato’s theory of color mixture in the Timaeus, as well as the shared epistemological background to Goethe’s and Plato’s abhorrence of the experimental study of natural phenomena, including light and colors, as the ‘torture of nature’, which is the basis of their equally shared ‘Orphic attitude’ toward nature and natural sciences. In addition to its historical context, the article also discusses Plato’s and Goethe’s shared ‘Orphic epistemology’ of experiment within the framework of modern philosophy of scientific experimentation.
中文翻译:

实验的“奥菲克认识论”:歌德的 Farbenlehre 和柏拉图的 Timaeus 中的色彩理论
这篇文章展示了歌德的《法本莱尔》和柏拉图的《蒂玛乌斯》中的色彩混合理论在历史和哲学上被忽视的共同现象学根源,以及歌德和柏拉图憎恶对自然现象(包括光和色)的实验研究是“对自然的折磨”的共同认识论背景,这是他们对自然和自然科学同样共享的“奥菲克态度”的基础。除了历史背景外,本文还讨论了柏拉图和歌德在现代科学实验哲学框架内共同的“奥菲克认识论”实验。