14 ideas
15038 | Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history [Foucault] |
15044 | 'Truth' is the procedures for controlling which statements are acceptable [Foucault] |
15042 | Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints [Foucault] |
15037 | Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development? [Foucault] |
2170 | Homer does not distinguish between soul and body [Homer, by Williams,B] |
2171 | The 'will' doesn't exist; there is just conclusion, then action [Homer, by Williams,B] |
21819 | Plato says the Good produces the Intellectual-Principle, which in turn produces the Soul [Homer, by Plotinus] |
15043 | Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault] |
15040 | Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault] |
15041 | Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault] |
11388 | Let there be one ruler [Homer] |
15039 | History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles [Foucault] |
4800 | Natural laws result from eliminative induction, where enumerative induction gives generalisations [Cohen,LJ, by Psillos] |
14829 | Homer so enjoys the company of the gods that he must have been deeply irreligious [Homer, by Nietzsche] |