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The one thing he [the epistemological anarchist] opposes positively and absolutely are universal standards, universal laws, universal ideas such as 'Truth', 'Reason', 'Justice', 'Love' and the behaviour they bring along.
The one thing he [the epistemological anarchist] opposes positively and absolutely are universal standards, universal laws, universal ideas such as 'Truth', 'Reason', 'Justice', 'Love' and the behaviour they bring along.
Against Method, Verso Books, 1980. p.189.
One of my motives for writing Against Method was to free people from the tyranny of philosophical obfuscators and abstract concepts such as 'truth,' 'reality,' or 'objectivity,' which narrow people's vision and ways of being in the world. Formulating what I thought were my own attitude and convictions, I unfortunately ended up by introducing concepts of similar rigidity, such as ‘democracy,’ ‘tradition,’ or ‘relative truth.
One of my motives for writing Against Method was to free people from the tyranny of philosophical obfuscators and abstract concepts such as 'truth,' 'reality,' or 'objectivity,' which narrow people's vision and ways of being in the world. Formulating what I thought were my own attitude and convictions, I unfortunately ended up by introducing concepts of similar rigidity, such as ‘democracy,’ ‘tradition,’ or ‘relative truth.
Killing Time. Chicago – London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. p.179.
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