2018-09-24
21 分钟Hello!
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So we ended last time by comparing the projects of Michel Foucault and Emmanuel Kant.
Foucault essentially taking one of the main focus points of Kant's work and turning it on its head.
As we talked about, while Kant wanted to take the subjective and contingent of the world,
analyze it, study it, and hopefully arrive at necessary truths about the way that things are,
Foucault on the other hand wanted to take things
that most people assumed were necessary truths and show how ultimately they were subjective,
contingent, and rooted in history.
To show how what we think of as the truth is often nothing more than just the dominant narrative of the time we're living.
Now last episode we talked about epistemes and paradigms.
Foucault questioning the dominant narrative of scientism,
of science being this disinterested vehicle for arriving at the truth about things,
or facts about the way that things are.
Two episodes ago we talked about the book Discipline and Punish,
Foucault questioning the dominant narrative that we used to be these barbaric savages that tortured our prisoners,
but then we evolved ethically to the point we've seen the error of our ways and now we treat them in a way that's much more humane.
Well it'll probably come as no surprise when I tell you,