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RSU Theory: Alain Badiou [1/6]

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Uploaded by on Apr 4, 2010

*disclaimer* The views of the speakers do not necessarily reflect the views of the Revolutionary Students Union as a whole. The RSU itself is non-tendency, but is firmly anti-capitalist.

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  • Damn! Slow down man! And please explain the subject, so a simple working class person can understand you... geez smh

  • Heidegger critiqued Marx saying understanding fundamentally shapes our world.

  • Awesome, this really helps settle the ideas I'm chasing after on paper, thank you!

  • @RevolutionarySpectre - I didn't say that all truths were self evident for Descartes; I said that innate ideas guaranteed the foundation of knowledge. Certainly Descartes leaves room for error and speculative doubt; but he also appeals to 'clear and distinct' ideas coming from intuition as guaranteeing all further espitemological enquiry. If you need another reference, we might as well cite Chomsky's appeal to a tacit 'human nature' (see his debate with Foucault).

  • @Krelianx Descartes most definately would not have accepted the notion that "all truths are self-evident", far from it.

    It's more of a straw-Platonist position.

  • What is the identity of the speaker?

  • @HebaruSan You missed the concrete references to the rationalist and empiricist traditions. Descartes, for example, thought innate ideas guaranteed the foundation of knowledge. Empiricism in sensual apprehension as what is given to subjective experience. Kant problematized this dichotomy, but made the synthetic mediation between intuition and the understanding the kernel of the idealist philosophy of access (grounded in the imagination). The story goes on; what are you left wondering?

  • Wait. Exactly who in history believed that all truths are self-evident? Certainly this clashes sharply with the basic premises of traditions of careful, critical investigation over time, such as the scientific method. But equally it seems inconsistent with religious notions of revelation--what could possibly be revealed if truths are already self-evident? Even the Declaration of Independence specified "THESE" truths, not all.

    Maybe I'm just getting tripped up by all the complicated fake words?

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