janDec 10
“…it is helpful to consider Goethe’s science and Steiner’s development of it…”
—Matthew Segall, Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value
https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/romantic-imagination-and-the-recovery
#goethe #steiner #science
Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value

Whitehead, Barfield, and Our Crisis of Perception

☿Footnotes²Plato☀☾
Show threadjanDec 10
“We interpret what we see in light of what we feel, and we interpret what we feel in light of what we see.”
—Matthew Segall, Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value
#seeing #feeling #imagination #value
Show threadjanDec 10
“Error becomes possible when reflective consciousness begins to interfere with…intuitive bodily attunement, when we…try to calculate what, at another level, we can feel.”
—Matthew Segall, Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value
#calculation
Show threadjanDec 10
“Imagination is…not just arbitrary fantasy, but can become the disciplined capacity to explore…new ways of fusing what we see and think with what we feel.”
—Matthew Segall, Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value
#imagination #seeing #thinking #feeling
Show threadjan
“Language is not simply a label slapped on a finished world but the medium in which the world and our consciousness of it co-evolve.”
—Matthew Segall, Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value
#language
Dec 10 at 2:19pmWeb