Case_of_Philosophy

Case of Philosophy Occasionally down the corridor of history, a solitary individual, through dint of his own leaps of logic and intuition, produces a work so astounding and compelling that it shakes an entire community of scholars, indeed the entire human village. We reserve such honors for a Plato, for a Kepler, or a Newton or an Einstein. But consider for a moment the following scenario. What if a great mind, one of the most profound in human history, completes what he considers his penultimate achievement, the acme of his spiritual and intellectual searching; but alas, the revelations presented in his works fall on deaf ears. He arrives at greatness, but has arrived too soon. Meanwhile, in the century and a half following his death, the concepts presented by the aforementioned great mind gradually occur to a number of other people, the likes of Albert Einstein and George Lemaitre. Unfortunately, the scenario describes the singular contributions, then subsequent neglect of the writer Edgar Allan Poe, who intuited the current modern cosmic theories, yet has never been properly credited for his discoveries. Even today, most people who thrill to Poe's masterfully told tales have never heard of Eureka, the work which Poe believed represented the poe, poe's, universe, letter, harrison, eureka, writer, work, thought, spiritual, one, god, thus, silverman, scientific, own, mind, matter, man, lecture, first, believed, aries, truths, through, theory, primary, presented, particle, nothing, might, intuitive, inductive, essay, deductive, condition, because, based, within, unified, truth, theories, tales, system, subsequent, spirit, space, revelation, quite, process, philosophy