I find that I am distracted by the chapters in part II Doing Goethean Science. To me the work is similar to when people try to implement homeopathic treatments in allopathic contexts — using Traditional Chinese Medicine to “fix” diseases that are framed within a western scientific definition. Plus, in the lion and horse article, the author makes a lot of mistakes about the behavior of horses. They can, for example, scratch their ears with their hooves, and they do this all the time.
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Agreed, and I like your analogies.
WORD on all counts. I frequently echo your analogy (pointing out, for example, that using orthomolecular medicine – or for that matter, “energy medicine” – in place of psychiatric pharmaceuticals to “treat” “mental illness” is a parody of a genuinely Holistic approach in that it enacts the mechanistic and bio-reductionistic worldview it purports to reject). Somehow, after reading your above post, I feel like my cool quotient has just increased. =)