"The phenomena must be freed once and for all from the grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense."

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)


Date
1833, 1840
Metaphor
"The phenomena must be freed once and for all from the grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense."
Metaphor in Context
The phenomena must be freed once and for all from the grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

[Die Phänomene müssen ein für allemal aus der düstern empirisch-mechanisch-domatischen Masterkammer vor die Jury des gemeinen Menschverstanden grebracht werden.]
Provenance
Reading Hans Blumenberg, Paradigms for a Metaphorology, trans. Robert Savage (Cornell UP, 2010), 28-9.
Citation
Text from Maximen un Reflexionen, Aus der Heften zur Naturwissenschaft, 430 Gedenkausgabe, ed. E. Beutler, IX, 551. In translation: Scientific Studies, trans. Douglas Miller (New York: Suhrkamp, 1988), 309
Date of Entry
08/09/2013

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.