>From: Asher Haig <ahaig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>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@xxxxxxxxxxx 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.
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>
>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 :)
>
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>
>Asher Haig ahaig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Dartmouth 2004
>
>
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>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>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@xxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Dartmouth 2004
>
>
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