摘要:This article presents a phenomenological analysis of self-education . Education is the process of inter-action , dialogue and inter-subjectivity . The self-education is the process of transforming himself/herself ( intra - action), monologue and intra-subjectivity . The self-education presents two fundamental principles: the recursion and uniqueness . Educator and student are both active in the subject who educates himself/herself. Each subject may have an object , specific way and reason for your self-education . The study analyzes the process of self-education of Goethe . Nature was the theme of his self-education , a phenomenology of senses and cognition was his mode and his motive was to search for the essence of things. The main point of the self-education sense is the creation of meaning from the significant sphere , which gives meaning and cohesion to the existence.