Philosophy, getting lost and wandering. Michel Foucault

 Philosophy, getting lost and wandering. Michel Foucault


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Michel Foucault, a French philosopher who captured the important features of modern power in the image of a shepherd on a search for 'one stray sheep'.


The way modern power individualizes the population


By totalizing, that is, by carefully caring for and taming individuals one by one, they claim to have increased their power as a whole.


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It does not stop at mere oppression, confinement, or exclusion.


Active management, nurturing, and caring have become new technologies of power.


He called the modern ruling power 'pastoral power' by comparing it to the image of a shepherd looking for a lost sheep.


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'Philosophy' means...


For Foucault, it was synonymous with 'getting lost and wandering.


The curiosity that allows one to move away from oneself, not the curiosity to make one's own knowledge that must be known.


That was the motivation for Foucault's work.


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It guarantees only the acquisition of knowledge and allows the recognition subject to


What is the need for such a lust for knowledge that doesn't help you get lost and wander?


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'You may perceive differently than you currently think to continue to reflect and observe'


There are moments in our lives when these questions are absolutely necessary.


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So, what exactly is philosophy?


It's not just about justifying what we already know, it's about trying to figure out how and to what extent we can think differently from what we already know, isn't it?


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It is not a curiosity to build education


The curiosity that drives me away from me.


rather than acquiring knowledge


A lust for knowledge that helps you get lost and wander.


Not justifying what I know, but how different I can think,


Critical thinking that tests how far you can think differently. Foucault called it philosophy.


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Be willing to get lost.


And don't be afraid to wander!

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