22 ideas
7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
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] |
7422 | A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations [Foucault] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
7590 | Consequentialism emphasises value rather than obligation in morality [Scruton] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
7589 | Altruism is either emotional (where your interests are mine) or moral (where they are reasons for me) [Scruton] |
7595 | The idea of a right seems fairly basic; justice may be the disposition to accord rights to people [Scruton] |
7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
7588 | Allegiance is fundamental to the conservative view of society [Scruton] |
7594 | Democrats are committed to a belief and to its opposite, if the majority prefer the latter [Scruton] |
7593 | Liberals focus on universal human freedom, natural rights, and tolerance [Scruton, by PG] |
7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
7592 | For positivists law is a matter of form, for naturalists it is a matter of content [Scruton] |
7587 | The issue of abortion seems insoluble, because there is nothing with which to compare it [Scruton] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |