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Thursday, January 29, 2009
 
Paul Veyne on Foucault's skepticism:
Un soir où nous parlions du mythe, il me disait que la grande question, pour Heidegger, était de savoir quel était le fond de la vérité; pour Wittgenstein, c’était de savoir ce qu’on disait lorsqu’on disait vrai; ‘ mais à mon avis, la question est: d’où vient que la vérité soit si peu vraie ?’; la vérité ou du moins les grandes vérités de chaque epoque.
My translation:
One evening when we spoke about myths, he said to me that the big question, for Heidegger, was to know which was the ground of truth; for Wittgenstein, it was to know what one said when one told truth; "but in my opinion, the question is: how is it that truth is not very true? '; truth or at least the great truths of each epoch.
From a footnote in: Supposons que la discipline et la sécurité n’existent pas~ Rereading Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (with Paul Veyne), by Bernard E. Harcourt.
 
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