Single Idea 7423

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy]

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.