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But recall that Noam Chomsky himself, a titan of left thought, rejected postmodernism for his entire life, and debated Michel Foucault in 1967, dismissing the b
by foolrush 9y ago
But recall that Noam Chomsky himself, a titan of left thought, rejected postmodernism for his entire life, and debated Michel Foucault in 1967, dismissing the blank slate and Foucault’s naïve argument that there was no defined human nature.
Yet a good deal of investigation supports Foucault's position over the years.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502112607.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502112607.h...
- supreme_sublime 9y agoWhat? That link doesn't support a "blank slate" argument at all. While I'm not a parent, ask any parent and they will tell you that their children show very different personalities from an incredibly young age. To act as if it is 100% nurture (or 100% nature) is ludicrous.
- foolrush 9y agoLanguage influencing thought (modernized Sapir Whorf) forms a base foundation against innate facets / late Humanist thinking. The field of perception and "optical illusion" is another such foundation. See Carpentered World hypothesis for example.