Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Alfred Tarski and Michel Foucault

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24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 1. Social Power

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Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics [Foucault]

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Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse [Foucault]

8991	Foucault can't accept that power is sometimes decent and benign [Foucault, by Scruton]

7425	The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 3. Government / a. Government

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The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault]

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 4. Changing the State / a. Centralisation

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Power is localised, so we either have totalitarian centralisation, or local politics [Foucault, by Gutting]