Reading Science as a Vocation lecture by Max Weber. Way cool reading. Hmm, when exactly in 1917? November 7. Dang!?
Go to October Revolution, November 7, 1917. (Russia was still using old style calendar back then, so a date that we consider November was in October for them)
Damn. Pretty cool connection. Felt compelled to save a chart for the moment of discovery.
It's been a great day of study. One early quote from the lecture reminded me of the old Greek concept of nous, meaning something along the lines of mind if I remember correctly. Always connecting that with writers through time who describe ideas as something we don't create, but which precede us and which come to us like lightening in flashes.
"Ideas come to us when they please, not when it pleases us." After a sentence or two about ideas coming while on a stroll etc comes this last sentence of the paragraph. "But ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with painstaking devotion."
Picturing now in my mind the countless images of Hindu gods holding among many other things a bolt of lightening.
I swear I checked multiple times and this BIG mistake got past me! October Revolution was Nov 7, 1917 and Weber lecture was Nov 7, 1918. Chart is for minute I checked dates for umpteenth time and finally caught my error.
