18 ideas
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
7424 | Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration [Foucault] |
7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
7270 | Historical interpretation aims to recapture the author's view of the work [Croce] |
7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |