From: "Bryan C" <kirk728-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Foucault's Method Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:22:33 -0700 >From: Asher Haig <ahaig-AT-warped-reality.com> >Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Subject: Re: Foucault's Method >Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:12:50 -0500 > >on 1/30/01 10:00 PM, Bryan C at kirk728-AT-hotmail.com wrote: > > > I do want to keep up with the power and the subject debate but I have to > > kick this Idea around. > > > > How can F's method be trusted? He said himself that sciences only > > contain but don't describe the phenomena they seek to explain. How is > > F's method any more reliable than the physician's? It isn't. There are > > an infinite number of variables that go into each geneology. F cannot > > discover, nor take into account each of them. The reality is that > > history is in a state of chaos, there are no rules of the game. The > > rules are human inventions that we use to satisfy our craving to explain > > the void. There is no reason why F is better that Hegel. > > > > Also, how can I know that I percieve reality? All I can know is myself. > > How do I know that anyone recieves this. It could just be my > > imagination or a great deceiver, I could be in the Matrix. > > > > There is no way I can see to come to conclusions from the study of > > history. > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > >Yes but in order for you to make these arguments you have to concede that >Foucault's depictions of the world are/were accurate. With that, there goes >the entirety of your argument - it either has no basis or must concede that >which it attacks. Not so. My point was that F's position perhaps is self-destructive. My personal position is that nothing corporeal can be truly known to me. P.S. Nathan informed me that I may be coming on too strong. I wasn't trying to, I was just throwing my idea out there to be kicked around. Sorry if I pissed anyone off :) > >--- > >Asher Haig ahaig-AT-warped-reality.com >Dartmouth 2004 > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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