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Speculations on Time and Space: or Zeno’s Last Stand
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David Clarke
Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics, Pages: 69 - 85
Swansea University Authors:
Marcus Doel , David Clarke
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DOI (Published version): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0691-6_4
Abstract
One must speculate within reason, since reason is what extends speculation its line of credit and judges its worth. Consequently, speculation makes a faux pas (false step) when it tries to step beyond or outpace what reason and logic dictate. Speculation must submit itself to all of the correctional...
| Published in: | Speculative Geographies: Ethics, Technologies, Aesthetics |
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| ISBN: | 9789811906909 9789811906916 |
| Published: |
London
Palgrave Macmillan
2022
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| Online Access: |
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-0691-6_4 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58443 |
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| Abstract: |
One must speculate within reason, since reason is what extends speculation its line of credit and judges its worth. Consequently, speculation makes a faux pas (false step) when it tries to step beyond or outpace what reason and logic dictate. Speculation must submit itself to all of the correctional facilities that reason has at its disposal for dealing with errant, deviant, and vagrant thoughts. In this context, the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea—‘The Dichotomy,’ ‘Achilles and the Tortoise,’ ‘The Arrow,’ and ‘The Stadium’—have kept philosophers and mathematicians puzzling for over two-and-a-half millennia, and they continue to outstep, outpace, and outsmart both reason and logic. The chapter takes up these immortal paradoxes, as Jorges Luis Borges once called them, in order to argue for the ideality of space and time and the hallucinatory nature of the world. Following in the footsteps of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth century British idealism, especially those of Francis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924) and John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (1866– 1925), with their particular impression of unreality, Zeno’s paradoxes lead us to the inexplicable nature of reality, and signal the ineluctability of a missed encounter with the real. |
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| Keywords: |
Zeno of Elea, Paradoxes of Motion, The Dichotomy Paradox, Achilles and the Tortoise Paradox, The Arrow Paradox, The Stadium Paradox, British Idealism, Speculation |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Funders: |
Swansea University Faculty of Science & Engineering |
| Start Page: |
69 |
| End Page: |
85 |