17 ideas
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
20363 | Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche] |
7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
7357 | People who control others with fluent language often end up being hated [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
7358 | All men prefer outward appearance to true excellence [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7362 | Humans are similar, but social conventions drive us apart (sages and idiots being the exceptions) [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7360 | Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7359 | Excess and deficiency are equally at fault [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7363 | The virtues of the best people are humility, maganimity, sincerity, diligence, and graciousness [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
7361 | Men of the highest calibre avoid political life completely [Kongzi (Confucius)] |
23393 | Confucianism assumes that all good developments have happened, and there is only one Way [Norden on Kongzi (Confucius)] |
7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |