Perceiving and thinking: Cognition and nature in Heideggerian ontology and Goethean phenomenology

Many of our thoughts are woven into the fabric of the natural world of phenomena---they are not "added to" perceptions from an inner mental realm, but rather are "immediate" in the act of perceiving and are inherent in the articulations of natural forms. The duality of concepts and percepts gives rise to the opposition of realism and idealism from the same presuppositions. Such a split way of experiencing the world did not exist for the mind of the Homeric Greeks. Heidegger's analysis of human understanding demonstrates a perceptual "know how" (pre-reflective thinking) at work in everyday actions. Bracketing the entirety of the structure of Dasein-in-a-world gains a clearer view of "nature"---not the nature of the scientific tradition, but rather the "primordial earth" that is similar to the "ideal content" inherent in natural phenomena. This suggests a foundation within the current milieu of interpretive relativism and the conflict of narratives.