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Single Idea 22235
[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions
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Full Idea
We believe that feelings are immutable, but every sentiment, particularly the most noble and disinterested, has a history.
Gist of Idea
Feelings are not unchanging, but have a history (especially if they are noble)
Source
Michel Foucault (Nietzsche, Genealogy, History [1971], p.86), quoted by Johanna Oksala - How to Read Foucault 5
Book Ref
Oksala,Johanna: 'Foucault how to read' [Granta 2007], p.45
A Reaction
This is the sort of remark that makes me think Foucault is worth reading. Aristotle thought you could teach correct feelings. That implies that you can also teach incorrect feelings.
The
31 ideas
from Michel Foucault
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7418
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The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed
[Foucault]
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7419
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Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom
[Foucault]
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7420
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When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos
[Foucault]
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7422
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A subject is a form which can change, in (say) political or sexual situations
[Foucault]
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7423
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Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked
[Foucault]
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7424
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Saying games of truth were merely power relations would be a horrible exaggeration
[Foucault]
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7425
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The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination
[Foucault]
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7426
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Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level
[Foucault]
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21947
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Power is localised, so we either have totalitarian centralisation, or local politics
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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21946
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Prisons gradually became our models for schools, hospitals and factories
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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7498
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Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex
[Foucault]
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7500
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Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self
[Foucault]
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7501
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Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art?
[Foucault]
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22235
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Feelings are not unchanging, but have a history (especially if they are noble)
[Foucault]
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8991
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Foucault can't accept that power is sometimes decent and benign
[Foucault, by Scruton]
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15045
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The big issue since the eighteenth century has been: what is Reason? Its effect, limits and dangers?
[Foucault]
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15037
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Why does knowledge appear in sudden bursts, and not in a smooth continuous development?
[Foucault]
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15038
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Structuralism systematically abstracted the event from sciences, and even from history
[Foucault]
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15039
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History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles
[Foucault]
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15040
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Marxists denounced power as class domination, but never analysed its mechanics
[Foucault]
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15041
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Power doesn't just repress, but entices us with pleasure, artefacts, knowledge and discourse
[Foucault]
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15043
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Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms
[Foucault]
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15042
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Truth doesn't arise from solitary freedom, but from societies with constraints
[Foucault]
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15044
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'Truth' is the procedures for controlling which statements are acceptable
[Foucault]
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22236
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The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children
[Foucault]
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21116
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Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people
[Foucault, by Shorten]
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21945
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Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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21941
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Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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21939
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The author function of any text is a plurality of selves
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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21942
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Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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21940
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Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them
[Foucault]
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