OK, I guess I need some clarification. I understand where you're going with the 2 wings of Goetheanism, but which is Schopenhaurian and which is Nietzschean? It seems that your comparison of Schopenhaur to Emerson and your own approach to spirit would lead me to believe this as the "left" school of thought, more liberal (?) but maybe I'm missing your definition of right and left.

You also say that Schopenhaur was more essentialist. Could you define essentialist for me?

I'd just like to get a handle on the vocabulary of the Goethean world.