11 ideas
5021 | An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz] |
21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
5020 | Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz] |
21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
5019 | Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz] |
21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |
21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |