The same is true of theology. I am interested in how these ideas impact our thinking & ethics. I don't want to discuss them endlessly.
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You can get just as endlessly bogged down arguing abt the logical implications of Foucault's words as you can Muhammad's.
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Many philosophers enjoy trying to cut through this & clarify (others enjoy obscuring it further but ignore them). I'm not a philosopher
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I'm much more interested in how they boil down to ideas, principles & values that affect society. (I'm aware this is a bit Foucauldian!)
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The difference is that I don't think knowledge itself is contingent or relative. We just have variable barriers to getting at it.
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In its defence, though, to most people in most situations, this will be indistinguishable from "relative truth".
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@BaileyNagy But that's the fallacy he's addressing. Ppl thinking that disagreement = no one truth rather than some people being wrong. - 3 more replies
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There are very few things less fruitful than discussing postmodern theory.
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Postmodernism is the intellectual equivalent to a self cutting emo kids poetry.
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