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Full Idea
The relationship between philosophy and politics is permanent and fundamental.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked
Source
Michel Foucault (Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom [1984], p.293)
Book Ref
Foucault,Michel: 'Essential Works 1954-1984 I: Ethics', ed/tr. Rabinow,Paul [Penguin 1994], p.293
A Reaction
This idea is one of the biggest gulfs between continental and analytical philosophy. Many aspects of philosophy are turning out to be much more social than analytical philosophers might have thought - epistemology, for example.
| 7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
| 7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
| 7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
| 7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
| 7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
| 7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
| 7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
| 7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |