Full Idea
The relationship between philosophy and politics is permanent and fundamental.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked
Source
Michel Foucault (Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom [1984], p.293)
Book Reference
Foucault,Michel: 'Essential Works 1954-1984 I: Ethics', ed/tr. Rabinow,Paul [Penguin 1994], p.293
A Reaction
This idea is one of the biggest gulfs between continental and analytical philosophy. Many aspects of philosophy are turning out to be much more social than analytical philosophers might have thought - epistemology, for example.