PSC 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Human Sexuality, Kate Millett, Sausage Making
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Lesson #1 - the truth is not always revealed in initial perceptions, but rather in subsequent investigations. Lesson #2 - the truth" is the best information we have at the time. As we learn new facts," theories which correspond to them may be revised, replaced, or discarded. Lesson #3 - power is the ability to create truth," deconstructing these categories can be productive. Lesson #4 there is a difference between bullshit and lying. Mill and dialectics: dialectics thesis + antithesis = synthesis, the truth will be demonstrated through this process, ex: argument a and argument b are set in opposition to each other, observations and evidence gathered and weighed. Hegelian dialectics: the steps of dialectics according to hegle. It is consciousness that decides whether knowledge of an object corresponds to the object. Scholars of gender and sexuality: foucault categories of human sexuality were constructed by authorities with social legitimacy, ex: the homosexual being ascribed as deviant.
