Original title: Über das Sehen und die Farben
Edited and translated by Pilar López de Santa María

Moved by his admiration for Goethe, Schopenhauer elaborates a theory of color that aims to support the facts that Goethe compiled in his own theory and, thus, support him in his radical opposition to Newtonian ideas. Schopenhauer expands on Goethe's ideas from a phenomenological and psychological perspective: he links the perception of colors with his reflections on representation and will, contributing to the development of aesthetic theories and the understanding of sensory perception. Despite not having a fully philosophical content, this paper contributes to the understanding of Schopenhauer's thought on empirical intuition and a priori forms of knowledge. Complex and exciting at the same time, the text reveals his concern for the latent tensions between subject and object, reality and representation, art and science, as well as the innumerable dichotomies that stimulated the dialogue between the two philosophers.