[lbo-talk] Michelangelo , was Re: The sources of suffering (Grow up!) ( Was Re: Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward)

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Tue Aug 28 10:19:47 PDT 2007


On 28 Aug, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
>
> As a psychological matter, the inability to see the self-
> contradiction to which this leads is linked to the associated idea
> that 'truth" claims have nothing to do with truth; they are masks for
> the will to power in Foucault's sense. Individuals making this claim
> also invariably ignore its implications for their own truth claims.
>
> Ironically, however, it is true of their own claims.
>

Untruth claims are not inverse truth claims. ;-) That it is true of their claims regarding truth may just be (not so ironically!) a will to return to power!

--ravi



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