16 ideas
21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
5901 | Is 'productive of happiness' the definition of 'right', or the cause of it? [Ross on Bentham] |
5934 | Of Bentham's 'dimensions' of pleasure, only intensity and duration matter [Ross on Bentham] |
3777 | Pleasure and pain control all human desires and duties [Bentham] |
3554 | Bentham thinks happiness is feeling good, but why use morality to achieve that? [Annas on Bentham] |
3781 | The value of pleasures and pains is their force [Bentham] |
21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |
3778 | The community's interest is a sum of individual interests [Bentham] |
21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |
20280 | Large mature animals are more rational than babies. But all that really matters is - can they suffer? [Bentham] |
3779 | Unnatural, when it means anything, means infrequent [Bentham] |
3780 | We must judge a thing morally to know if it conforms to God's will [Bentham] |