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Aristotle vs. Foucault

2023/11/14
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David Boles: Human Meme

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Through the magic of AI, we can now pretend to know just how a dialogue between Aristotle and Michel Foucault might play out in our imaginary playground of "intellectual history." Aristotle and Foucault, in this whimsey of imagination, would create a meeting of two minds from vastly different times and intellectual climates, with Aristotle anchored in the ancient tradition of systematic philosophy, and Foucault emblematic of Twentieth century critical thought and post-structuralism.