Toby Buckle

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Elucidations · Episode 109: Bonus Episode with Matt Teichman and Toby Buckle · 13 Oct 2018 podcast

and never get back out again.

I think I would take a more grounded view than Foucault in that I would say there are categories and concepts that we have that say we as people living in an affluent country in the West have today that are fairly unique to us, our understanding of the individual, our understanding of freedom, of rationality.

But that doesn't mean we just collapse into sort of a hopeless relativistic swamp where all views are completely equal and we'll never find our way out of these power dynamics.

I think there's different traditions.

I think there's different understandings within the traditions.

And even if they're ultimately flawed, I think you can compare them, contrast them, make meaningful statements on who you think is getting it right.

Let me take you up on both ends of that.

So there's two questions there.

One is the idea of the truth of a statement is independent of how that statement came to be generated.

Yeah, that seems correct, and I do take the view that there is such a thing as moral and ethical truth, and I think we can talk about it reasonably objectively.

So I've defended on my podcast a sort of morally consequentialist view that starts with the fact of consciousness.

We know we exist.

And we know we have perceptions and feelings about the world because we perceive and feel them.

And you can kind of map forward from there in terms of making distinctions between the different types of them and more desirable and less desirable.

With that said, that method of cashing out particular moral and political claims obviously isn't how most people are doing it most of the time and have done it most of the time throughout political history.

We assess things in much broader terms of are people free?

Is this fair?

With these big, vague, diaphanous, poorly defined concepts.

That's how we make sense of our social and political.

political reality.

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