I mention Durant’s book The Story of Philosophy because it was a turning point in my life, I too become a scholar as did Durant, thereafter reading the philosophers and logicians …” David West Keirsey, Turning Points, 2012 I read it over and over again, now and then re-reading his account of some of the philosophers.“ Then, when I was sixteen, I read my father’s copy of Will Durant’s The Story of Philosophy. Starting at age nine my family went to the library once a week, I checking out two or three novels which I would read during the week. Read countless novels thereafter, day in and day out. Read (most of) a twelve volume set of books my parents bought, Journeys through Bookland. “… I had learned a lot, but not at school. The outside world of the Roaring Twenties and Depression of the 30’s was a buffeting environment but my father was pretty oblivious the wider currents of the world.
NEMESIS BOOKS DAVE ERICKSON FREE
Prometheus - “forethinker, foreseer,” from promēthēs “thinking before,” from pro “before” (see pro-) + *mēthos, related to mathein “to learn”īut in the beginning he was a kid in a small town in Southern California, free to roam like Huckleberry Finn in the 1920’s and 1930’s. My father had questioned the conventional consensus all his life. This was to be his punishment for all of eternity. He was chained to a rock to have his liver eaten out every day by an eagle. For acting against the decree of the Gods, who wanted to keep the power of fire to themselves, Prometheus was harshly punished. He stole fire from the Gods of Mount Olympus. In the form of fire Prometheus is credited with bringing mankind knowledge and enlightenment. In Ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus was said to be the wisest of all the Titans. Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound (1845)
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