Metamorfoses do olhar, na compreensão sobre plantas, em Goethe

Abstract

Goethe had a proper way of facing the vegetable’s bodily development. In this sense, this study presents a lexicographic and speech analysis of the book “The Metamorphosis of Plants”, in addition to an educational contribution on how to work with the historical and philosophical context of this work in the classroom. The speech analysis followed the relevant literature; the lexicographic analyzes was carried out using the IRaMuTeQ ® software within the R space; the educational approach was accomplished through a bibliographic review of learning models. The main results highlight that although research indicates that Goethe had a method centered around morphological structuralism, the context of their explanations is broader, indicating physiological, ecological, and ontological evidence. From the teaching perspective, a set of six educational activities was proposed that can be used in the classroom to work on the theme of the border of scientific naturalism between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, like the fixist x transformist model of species as a way of contextualizing the history and philosophy of the natural sciences. In this way, this study adds to Goethian studies and his historical context, with a new look at his legacy and time.