Michel Foucault & Truth

I found this today. Pretty interesting quote, imo. Looks like I've found another book to read. :)


"My intention was not to deal with the problem of truth, but with the problem of truth-teller or truth-telling as an activity … Who is able to tell the truth? What are the moral, the ethical, and the spiritual conditions which entitle someone to present himself as, and to be considered as, a truth-teller? About what topics is it important to tell the truth? … What are the consequences of telling the truth? … And finally: what is the relation between the activity of truth-telling and the exercise of power, or should these activities be completely independent and kept separate? Are they separable, or do they require one another?"

-Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia (1983)

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lightandstorm
Did you get that from Phil?
Koios

I sure did :)

When I read it, my response was, "I've been asking these same questions!" I wonder how Foucault answered them.

lightandstorm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/

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"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble." -Joseph Campbell
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