21 ideas
| 20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley] |
| 7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
| 7426 | Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault] |
| 20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley] |
| 20449 | Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley] |
| 7423 | Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault] |
| 20448 | Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley] |
| 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] |
| 20454 | Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley] |
| 20456 | Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley] |
| 7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
| 20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley] |
| 7425 | The aim is not to eliminate power relations, but to reduce domination [Foucault] |
| 20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley] |
| 20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley] |
| 20451 | Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley] |
| 7418 | The idea of liberation suggests there is a human nature which has been repressed [Foucault] |
| 7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
| 7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |