Contents

1. Introduction

2. How Goethe's Theory of Metamorphosis Arose

3. How Goethe's Thoughts on the Development of the Animals Arose

4. The Nature and Significance of Goethe's Writings on Organic Development

5. Concluding Remarks on Goethe's Morphological Views

6. Goethe's Way of Knowledge

7. The Arrangement of Goethe's Natural-scientific Writings

8. From Art to Science

9. Goethe's Epistemology

10. Knowing and Human Action in the Light of the Goethean Way of Thinking

11. Relationship of Goethean Way of Thinking to Other Views

12. Goethe and Mathematics

13. Goethe's Basic Geological Principle

14. Goethe's Meteorological Conceptions

15. Goethe and Natural-scientific Illusionism

16. Goethe as Thinker and Investigator

17. Goethe Against Atomism

18. Goethe's World View in his Aphorisms in Prose

Notes