Mehdi Hoseinzadeh Yazdi; Monire Zinolabedini; Mohsen Mollabashi
Volume 6, Issue 1 , Summer and Autumn 2015, , Pages 15-36
Abstract
Michel Foucault was a contemporary philosopher with a global influence. He proposed serious critiques to the earlier intellectuals and was also influenced by many of them. The present study will only examine the epistemic principles of his genealogy through answering questions such as “how did ...
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Michel Foucault was a contemporary philosopher with a global influence. He proposed serious critiques to the earlier intellectuals and was also influenced by many of them. The present study will only examine the epistemic principles of his genealogy through answering questions such as “how did Foucault define truth? What path did he take to get to truth? Was Foucault a relativist? In what domain was he a relativist and what was the basis of his relativism?”. The analysis of the epistemic principles of genealogy showed that Foucault remained loyal to the theory of coherentism in defining truth through both stages. Moreover, in genealogy he had a nominalistic approach and chose ontological relativism and epistemological relativism from many kinds of relativism. Loyal to Nietzsche and his ontological-relativist approaches, he extended the relativism maintained in the genealogy and emphasized that, during every period in history, power determines the truth or falsehood of statements through discourse.
