“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, October 6, 2016

Stillness

By Nik Gaffney, with a foreword by me...

Movement is a deeply strange and paradoxical phenomenon, yet we see it all around us all the time. Many philosophers can’t cope with how paradoxical it is — think about Zeno and his paradoxes — so they try to get rid of it, by arguing that movement is just an illusion.

2 comments:

John T. Maher said...

Yeah Heraclitus and all those guys for whom movement defined life. Love all refs to Zeno!

Ye speaketh in riddles I have decided. Wonderous imagery and love the pull quote about art becoming when humans are inhabited. Still trying to be open enough to think in this manner

D. E.M. said...

"Non-violent direct action"! Timothy, your wordsmithing is a joy.