[lit-ideas] Re: What, then, is wanting to know?

  • From: Walter Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:48:41 -0330 (NST)

Neither. Both accounts are self-refuting. The motives cited have no
necessary epistemic worth, and, hence, neither we nor A or N have rational
grounds for accepting or maintaining either one of them. (But then of
course I only say that to satisfy my desires and instinctive need for
happiness. As is the case with your agreement or disagreement with my
claim.)

Walter O.
Memorial U

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, John McCreery wrote:

> Oddly enough, my bedtime reading for the last couple of weeks has been
> David Macey's biography of Michel Foucault. In it, on page 247, I find
> Macey's description of Foucault's lectures in his first year at the
> College de France, where he "began to outline what he called a
> 'morphology of the the will to knowledge' and to look at the very
> different models offered by Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics and
> Nietzsche's Gay Science." Paraphrasing Foucault, Macey writes,
>
> "For Aristotle, there was direct relationship between pleasure and
> sensation, and therefore between the intensity of pleasure and the
> quantitity of knowledge supplied by sense perception. The desire for
> knowledge was a variant on the natural search for happiness and 'the
> good'. For Nietzsche, knowledge is a product of a play of conflicting
> instincts or desires, and of a will to appropriate and dominate.
> Always provisional and unstable, it is always a slave to primal and
> violent instincts."
>
> Which description would you say fits most closely your own will to know?
>
> John
>
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