From: Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms-AT-globalxs.nl> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:32:17 +0100 Subject: Re: Concerns (cont.) Op 15-feb-98 schreef david wachtfogel: >(This is a continuation) >You're either a materialist or an idealist. If you're an idealist, if you >believe in the existence of extra material realities such as "love", >"truth", "right", then you do not accept the materialist project, to >which Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Foucault belong to. >So please tell me Randall, tell us all, are you _a believer_, do you >believe in extra material realities? Are you, to quote Paul Simon, >"blinded by the light of god and truth and right?" Because if you are, >you really don't have any business with Foucault. By F's standards you're >just "wander[ing] through the night with out direction." >-- David W. Well, David this 'fork' is a wellknown retorical device, but it's not very productive in a dialogue. You're acting like a bad lawyer (do like this person, no? so you hate him and therefore you must have killed him'). Besides it's obviously not true. You can be a nihilist, or think that all ontological questions are utterly absurd. You may even, like Husserl, reject all ontological claims and concentrate on the phenomenon itself. Or you may like a postmodernist or scepticist claim that all universal propositions are false. The challenge to Randall to come out of the idealist closet seems to me a argumentum ad hominum! I personally don't give a shit about what Randall believes and I surely don't want to excommunicate someone because of his or her convictions. So what's your direction, David? -erik
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