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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'works' and 'Treatise of Freewill'

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8 ideas

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]
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]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 6. Authentic Self
6231 There is a self-determing power in each person, which makes them what they are [Cudworth]
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]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy
7825 The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]
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]