Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Steven Pinker, Epictetus and Michel Foucault
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / b. The natural life
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A person is as naturally a part of a city as a foot is part of the body [Epictetus]
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people
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We are citizens of the universe, and principal parts of it [Epictetus]
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24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights
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Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault]
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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 1. Purpose of a State
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Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault]
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24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 4. Citizenship
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A citizen is committed to ignore private advantage, and seek communal good [Epictetus]
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A citizen should only consider what is good for the whole society [Epictetus]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power
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Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault]
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Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault]
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Foucault can't accept that power is sometimes decent and benign [Foucault, by Scruton]
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The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 3. Government / a. Government
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The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault]
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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / a. Centralisation
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Power is localised, so we either have totalitarian centralisation, or local politics [Foucault, by Gutting]
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