[lbo-talk] Reich on sex & religion

[Manjur Karim]

"Sensible Talk" in itself does not faithfully reflect an ontologically valid reality out there.  What is "sensible" and what is not depends on the premises of "sensibility" that you are operating upon, discourses that you are participating in.  IMHO, you can't argue with religious fanatics from an inherently superior vantage point of truth.  With all honesty, the best we can do is to present our arguments from our specific will to knowledge, from our own hegemonic articulations. If that makes me an epistemological nihilist, I plead guilty.
Manjur

Jon Johanning <zenner41 at mac.com> wrote:
I would be very careful about taking the "every discourse has its own 
logic, truth, and validity" line. This ends up making any kind of 
sensible talk impossible, since anyone can easily invent their own kind 
of "discourse" in which whatever they say is true, and whatever anyone 
else says is false. In fact, that's what religious fanatics do, and why 
it's impossible to argue them out of their views.


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