GA 6 · Writings

Goethes Weltanschauung (1897)

Goethe's Conception of the World

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalogpublished the site's GA catalog
Kindtext the site's GA catalog
ISBN

Editions of the German volume

EditionYearPagesWitness
81990258the publisher's online catalog
1990AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

15 units in the printed table of contents, about 47,953 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1963.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
VORREDE ZUR NEUEN AUSGABEtext286
VORREDE ZUR ERSTEN AUFLAGEtext1278
EINLEITUNGtext953
GOETHE UND SCHILLERtext1105
DIE PLATONISCHE WELTANSCHAUUNGtext1999
DIE FOLGEN DER PLATONISCHEN WELTANSCHAUUNGtext2900
GOETHE UND DIE PLATONISCHE WELTANSICHTtext4356
PERSÖNLICHKEIT UND WELTANSCHAUUNGtext3787
DIE METAMORPHOSE DER WELTERSCHEINUNGENtext5298
DIE ANSCHAUUNGEN ÜBER NATUR UND ENTWICKLUNG DER LEBEWESENtext13523
DIE BETRACHTUNG DER FARBENWELTtext7669
GEDANKEN ÜBER ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE DER ERDE UND LUFTERSCHEINUNGENtext1601
BETRACHTUNGEN ÜBER ATMOSPHÄRISCHE ERSCHEINUNGENtext592
GOETHE UND HEGELtext1062
NACHWORT ZUR NEUAUFLAGE 1918text1544

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served15 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text15 the site's completeness audit
Words served47892 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA006/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used1963 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Goethe's Conception of the World the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English) APC1928

PublisherAnthroposophical Publishing Co. the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928); AnthroWiki (English)
PlaceLondon the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928)
Years1928
Pages193 the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928)
Translated fromtranslated from the second German edition of 1918 the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928)
Edited byH. Collison the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928)
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • Goethe's Conception of the World, Anthroposophical Publishing Co., London, and Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1928, 193 pp., translated from the second German edition of 1918, edited by H. Collison the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928)
  • • [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Goethe's Conception of the World*. Edited by H. Collison, Anthroposophical Publishing Company, London 1928 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0006/English/APC1928/GA006_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Goethe's World View the edition's imprint line (GA006/MP1985); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English) MP1985

TranslatorWitnesses differ:
PublisherMercury Press the edition's imprint line (GA006/MP1985); AnthroWiki (English)
PlaceSpring Valley, New York the edition's imprint line (GA006/MP1985)
Years1985
Pages163 the edition's imprint line (GA006/MP1985)
Translated fromtranslated from the fifth German edition of 1963 the edition's imprint line (GA006/MP1985)
ISBN0-936132-71-X AnthroWiki (English)
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • Goethe's World View, Mercury Press, Spring Valley, New York, 1985, 163 pp., translated from the fifth German edition of 1963 by William Lindemann the edition's imprint line (GA006/MP1985)
  • • [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Goethe's World View*. Translated by William Lindeman, Mercury Press 1985, ISBN 0-936132-71-X [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0006/English/MP1985/GA006_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
APC1928155, 9, 11311, 0
MP1985154, 8, 31310, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Goethes Weltanschauung (1897) (GA 6), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/6/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/6/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions APC1928, MP1985.

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Witnesses

Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.

the site's alignment tables
~/data/build/search-2026-11-02a.db · sha256 8a3bf2fb68616955
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German)
https://anthrowiki.at/GA_6
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_6 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index
site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog
data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog
the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German
data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022
Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA006/APC1928)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA006/APC1928/00_toc.md · sha256 9bba65c652f98ce0
the edition's imprint line (GA006/MP1985)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA006/MP1985/00_toc.md · sha256 f3b99897f34f4e79
the printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 9693e2a807f7f2ad
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA006/ · sha256 639f75b8ebad7d77
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit
research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04

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