tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976837206592598259.post6689639727500406418..comments2024-02-03T03:05:08.289-08:00Comments on Robin Wright: The New YorkerRobin Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11768038936007351828noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6976837206592598259.post-35503914100699258092018-05-25T09:07:41.026-07:002018-05-25T09:07:41.026-07:00For it remains true, however hard one struggles fo...For it remains true, however hard one struggles for<br />truth, that:<br />all opinions about things belong to the individual, and we know only<br />too well that our beliefs depend not on reason but on the will, and<br />that people understand only what is appropriate for them and what<br />they can recognise. In knowledge as in action prejudice settles every-<br />thing, and prejudice, as its name indicates, is a judgement made<br />before an examination of the facts. It is an acceptance or rejection of<br />things which are in sympathy or not in sympathy with our nature; it<br />is a happy impulse of our being towards both truth and falsehood,<br />towards everything with which we feel in harmony (Goethe, Theory<br />of Colour, polemical section WW, , p. ). 10<br />10<br />Goethe, Zur Farbenlehre, Polemischer Theil (), in Goethe, Werke, vols. (Weimar edn:<br />H. Bohlau, –), Abth. II, Band , p. . This was the work in which Goethe con-<br />troversially attacked Isaac Newton’s account of visual perception and argued that colour<br />was determined by the eye of the beholder as well as by the objective properties of matter.PeterCooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14422993728897753010noreply@blogger.com