Category Archives: Philosophy

Human All Too Human: Friedrich Nietzsche

(48mins) Produced by BBC Four. Hosted at Google Video.

This is a rare BBC documentary that explores the life and work of the foremost philosopher of the western world: the inimitable Friedrich Nietzsche.

Human All Too Human: Jean Paul Sartre

(48mins) Produced by BBC Four. Hosted at Google Video.

 

This is a rare BBC documentary that explores the life and work of the philosophy and author Jean Paul Sartre.

Human all too Human: Martin Heidegger

(49mins) Produced by BBC Four. Hosted at Google Video.

This is a rare BBC documentary that examines the life and work of 20th century philosopher Martin Heidegger.

PART ONE

PART TWO

(5mins each. Posted by hiperf289 at You Tube)

Foucault’s masterwork is Discipline & Punish. Here, Foucault argues that the prison is one facet in the overall ‘rationality’ structuring disciplinary society - questions raised regard methods used to coerce persons to behave in certain, predictable ways and the best means to achieve this end. Foucault offers this observation near the conclusion of DP:

“The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ’social-worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements” (p. 304).”

…Just the Echo of a Message in a Matrix…