Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism
The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality. The absolute (reality) is composed of five dimensions – height, length, width, time, and justice. The five dimensions operate dialectic
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Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism
George A. Gonzalez
Star Trek and the Politics of Globalism
George A. Gonzalez University of Miami Coral Gables, FL, USA
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Preface
The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality.1 The absolute (i.e., reality) is composed of five dimensions. Analytic philosophers recognize the four physical dimensions (height, width, length, and time). Continental philosophers, Hegel among them, philosophize about the fifth dimension. Because this volume treats primarily political issues—I’ll label this fifth dimension justice. The five dimensions operate dialectically, and the normative values of reality inhere within the fifth dimension—hard, soft, moral, ethical, red, yellow, etc., ad infinitum. So while I emphasize in this volume the normative values of human affairs (hence, my labeling the fifth dimension justice), the normative values of this dimension extend far beyond human ethics, morality, and politics. Nevertheless, to understand the absolute, it is my contention that we need to focus on human affairs, because humans through their creativity change the absolute. Emphasizing the dimension of justice, humans through their various endeavors create new fields of ethics, morality, politics—that is, modifying the fifth dimension. The
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