Political Science · Political Theory
Given below are two statements, one labelled Assertion (A) and the other Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Michel Foucault held that we do not discover the truth, we construct the truth.
Reason (R): Michel Foucault supported the idea of the Enlightenment and structuralism.
ABoth A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
BBoth A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
CA is true, but R is false ✓ Correct
DA is false, but R is true
Correct answer: (C) A is true, but R is false — The assertion is true while the reason is false, so the answer is the third option.
Explanation
★The assertion is true while the reason is false, so the answer is the third option.
★Foucault did hold that truth is constructed through power rather than simply discovered.
★Every society, he argued, has its own regime of truth tied to its power relations.
★The reason is false because Foucault criticised the Enlightenment faith in universal reason.
★He is regarded as a post-structuralist, not a defender of structuralism.
★Post-structuralism rejects the fixed structures and stable meanings of structuralism.
★Thus the true assertion stands beside a false reason.
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