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Goethe
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Neither objective or subjective, urphaenomene
[the term is Goethe's, from his Metamorphosis
of Plants] "come into existence as types, or as laws, only as they
are intuited by human beings. And until they have so come into being, the
object itself is incomplete. Knowledge in fact, so far from being a mental
copy of events and processes inside the human being, inserts the human
being right into these processes, of whose development it is itself the
last stage" (RCA 37).
| See in particular
Romanticism Comes of
Age, passim. |
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