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While searching for different philosophical views on art, I stumbled across one of Goethe's theories on color that I found particularly worthy to think about some more:
Even if these sentences speak from a scientific point of view, the quote can me interpreted in a philosophical way, too.
Basically, Goethe perceived the darkness as an important element in the creation of colors, unlike most great minds of the Age of Enlightenment, who only saw the light as an active factor in the process. Thinking about it more: it's true that light comes from light-sources, like stars, and that these sources can "die" or fade. If all light-sources were to stop producing light, what's left would be the darkness. All light-sources have a certain 'life-span', so their "death" is in the end inevitable, the space around them falling back into darkness. Yet new light-sources will form and history repeats itself, but before any light-sources existed, there was only infinite darkness, perhaps already containing things no one could see or find, but they all began their existence in darkness.
This sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Connecting the inference with the universe of Kingdom Hearts, what Ansem SoD said gains in meaning. But this is not really a discussion about KH, it's a general discussion for a mix of philosophy and science that is not really science and is not meant to be serious science anyway...
Moving on to the second sentence, "Color itself is a degree of darkness"...
I was thinking, what if darkness is in truth the element that contains all colors? You can't hide colors in most powerful light as the light causes all the colors to fade, to disappear. It's a similar situation with darkness, but, even in pitch black darkness, we know for sure that there are objects wearing colors. The darkness hides them, envelops them. What if it is in fact the darkness that contains all colors? And, if light is make of lots of colors, why wouldn't darkness consist of a multitude of colors, too?
It is where there's is a certain amount of darkness left, untouched by light entirely, that color is created and objects take shape. It takes the right amount of light invading the darkness to reveal things without them being devoured by either light or darkness completely.
The only thing that freaks me out is the concept of "colorful light", as in red light, green light, yellow light and so on. Even if the light-source is not artificial, taking stars as perfect natural examples, differences in their light's color can be observed. How can this be? Is it that there is darkness even in what seems to be pure light?
Again so many KH references can be made, but I shall not discuss them here since the forum section says "We do not speak of Kingdom Hearts in this place", but if you got some interesting ideas, analogies or theories to share, it's best to just write them down, right?
I hope that my inconsistent reasoning was at least a nice read if not something stimulating enough for you mind (which I hope it was though, I think this stuff is worthy of some pleasant philosophizing!)
"Light and darkness, brightness and obscurity, or if a more general expression is preferred, light and its absence, are necessary to the production of color…
Color itself is a degree of darkness."
Color itself is a degree of darkness."
Even if these sentences speak from a scientific point of view, the quote can me interpreted in a philosophical way, too.
Basically, Goethe perceived the darkness as an important element in the creation of colors, unlike most great minds of the Age of Enlightenment, who only saw the light as an active factor in the process. Thinking about it more: it's true that light comes from light-sources, like stars, and that these sources can "die" or fade. If all light-sources were to stop producing light, what's left would be the darkness. All light-sources have a certain 'life-span', so their "death" is in the end inevitable, the space around them falling back into darkness. Yet new light-sources will form and history repeats itself, but before any light-sources existed, there was only infinite darkness, perhaps already containing things no one could see or find, but they all began their existence in darkness.
This sounds familiar, doesn't it?
"All worlds begin in darkness, and all so end"
Connecting the inference with the universe of Kingdom Hearts, what Ansem SoD said gains in meaning. But this is not really a discussion about KH, it's a general discussion for a mix of philosophy and science that is not really science and is not meant to be serious science anyway...
Moving on to the second sentence, "Color itself is a degree of darkness"...
I was thinking, what if darkness is in truth the element that contains all colors? You can't hide colors in most powerful light as the light causes all the colors to fade, to disappear. It's a similar situation with darkness, but, even in pitch black darkness, we know for sure that there are objects wearing colors. The darkness hides them, envelops them. What if it is in fact the darkness that contains all colors? And, if light is make of lots of colors, why wouldn't darkness consist of a multitude of colors, too?
It is where there's is a certain amount of darkness left, untouched by light entirely, that color is created and objects take shape. It takes the right amount of light invading the darkness to reveal things without them being devoured by either light or darkness completely.
The only thing that freaks me out is the concept of "colorful light", as in red light, green light, yellow light and so on. Even if the light-source is not artificial, taking stars as perfect natural examples, differences in their light's color can be observed. How can this be? Is it that there is darkness even in what seems to be pure light?
Again so many KH references can be made, but I shall not discuss them here since the forum section says "We do not speak of Kingdom Hearts in this place", but if you got some interesting ideas, analogies or theories to share, it's best to just write them down, right?
I hope that my inconsistent reasoning was at least a nice read if not something stimulating enough for you mind (which I hope it was though, I think this stuff is worthy of some pleasant philosophizing!)