POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Utopia, Counterclaim, Situation Two
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Focault, gaventa, dalh"s views on truth , power , democracy. Foucault"s view of the relationship between truth and power. (in part, this is his idea that truth isn"t outside power. Truth is a thing of this world (p. Cities are ruled differently each one makes different laws to their own advantage. Their rulers deem what is just for their subjects. People who go against this are unjust and lawless. They will decide and declare what justice is. Not necessarily the meaning of justice but it does happen. There is a politics of truth (or knowledge) Possibility of constituting a new politics of truth . What we understand to be true is often produced by unequal society. Powerful groups aren"t necessarily using their power to produce truths, rather they"re also believing in those truths themselves. Quote: aristotle was probably the greatest person of greek.
