“The ability to make good use of average talents is an art that extorts respect, and often wins more repute than real merit does.”
– François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections
Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
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“The ability to make good use of average talents is an art that extorts respect, and often wins more repute...
suliqyre:In this universe, you are a substantial self that relates to a separate world using knowledge and language. In the...
philosophybits: “If it is complete lack of perception, like a dreamless sleep, then death would be a great advantage. For...
Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton
