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“My role-and that is too emphatic a word-is to show people that they arc much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed. To change something in the minds of people-that's the role of an intellectual.”
― Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
― Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
“Benim tam olarak ne olduğumu bilmenin gerekli olduğunu düşünmüyorum. Hayattaki ve işteki amaç başta olmadığınız bir kişiye dönüşmektir.”
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“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”
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“All my analyses are against the idea of universal necessities in human existence. They show the arbitrariness of institutions and show which space of freedom we can still enjoy and how many changes can still be made.”
― Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
― Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
“What I have studied are the three traditional problems: (1) What are the relations we have to truth through scientific knowledge, to those "truth games" which arc so important in civilization and in which we are both subject and object? (2) What are the relationships we have to others through those strange strategies and power relationships? And (3) what are the relationships between truth, power, and self?”
― Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
― Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
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