Tuesday, September 15, 2009

thoughts on mr. foucault: punishment

Question: p.85, What does he mean by the illegality of rights?

*I know the Enlightenment was considered a big turning point for the concept of punishment, which was influenced by new notions of the individual self, but it seems that the evolving world of punishment took indivuality and ran with it on its own after that, to some interesting ends--on p.89, I was taken with the idea of the 'contract,' the individual as party to a social contract, thus binding them to their own punishment by virtue of participation in society. Very iiiinteresting! A different kind of guilt--guilt to king--guilt to god--guilt to society...and later, we will come to the guilt to self and micro-societies--the family, the race, the neighborhood..hmmmm...

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