Anyone familiar with the famous debate knows that one of the key differences between the two thinkers is that Chomsky asserts that there is something that is human nature, though he admits it is hard to define, and that there is something like a just society, while Foucault argues that there is no definition of human nature without institutions imposing their power on others, and that no society can be completely free or just.
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Gerlach is German and rhymes with bear-lock. I was born and raised in the Haight Ashbury of San Francisco, moved to Berkeley for college and grad school, with an MA in History of Religion from the Graduate Theological Union of Berkeley, and now teach Philosophy and the history of human thought at Berkeley City College. I have taught Intro Philosophy, Ethics, Logic, Asian Philosophy, Greek Philosophy, Modern European Philosophy and Social & Political Philosophy there for the past several years, and it has been a joy.
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