Can anyone explain to me why Goethe was so obsessed with his color theory? I swear a good part of the work is dedicated just to Goethe obsessing over it. The man gets extremely defensive over it to the point of calling Eckermann when he refutes one of Goethe's points on the theory, after he goes to check it for himself and sees that Goethe was wrong (Eckermann was proven right by the way, as Goethe later admits).It's just very odd, as Eckermann himself remarks, how calm, gracious and self controlled Goethe is when it comes to the humanities, in comparison to how he acts in regards to the sciences.There are other things that are irksome about the man aside from this, as i read through the work, that you rarely see mentioned like his obsession with the English people, but that just seems like a feature of the 18th century Germans in general not just him.But nevertheless, the man is a genius, and i still have the highest amount of respect for him. I was just wondering why he is so opinionated and irrational when it comes to this one point, since that is what really struck me as odd. I am not a scientifically knowledgeable man, so i fail to understand his issue with Newton and his insistence and confidence on this theory. I am unsure whose theory was even proven right in the end, and if Goethe's confidence was warranted.You can use this thread to discuss the work in general, not just what i want to discuss or Goethe's color theory.
>>25639646he was a failed scientist and a moron. he added nothing to the world
You might wanna read Steiner. Goethe's color theory is the best developed account of his approach to science in general. Defending it is defending his approach to an entire discipline
