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All the ideas for 'later work', 'A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature' and 'works'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

19395

Philosophy is sanctified, because it flows from God [Leibniz]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

6840	Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

21945

Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

19394

Inequality can be brought infinitely close to equality [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism

21942

Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / a. Consciousness

21941

Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

21939

The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

21936

A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning]

21937

Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights

21940

Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault]

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / d. Reform of offenders

21116

Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten]