volition

'But whereas the scientific apparatus (ours) is led to share the illusion of the powers it necessarily supports, that is, to assume that the masses are transformed by the conquests and victories of expansionist production, it is always good to remind ourselves that we mustn't take people for fools.'
michel de certeau | practice of everyday life | theory |

'It was man's submission to the impersonal forces of the market that in the past has made possible the growth of civilisation which without this could not have developed; it is by thus submitting that we are every day helping to build something that is greater than anyone of us can ever comprehend.'
hayek | road to serfdom | cities | emergence | society | the market | theory |

'Liberty, far from putting man in possession of himself, ceaselessly alienates him from his essence and his world, it fascinates him in the
absolute exteriority of other people and of money, in the irreversible interiority of passion and unfulfilled desire.'
foucault | madness and civilisation | liberty | society

' Through work, man returns to the order of God's commandments; he submits his liberty to laws that are those of both morality and reality (...) all
exercises of his imagination must be excluded'
foucault | madness and civilisation | sanity | work

'Sehen Sie, schon geht es an. Nun haben sie die kleine Antigone erwischt. Zum erstenmal in ihrem Leben wird sie ganz sie selbst sein können.'
anouillh | antigone

‘Glaucon's story posed a moral question: could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon seemed to think the answer was no. But Paul Feldman sides with Socrates and Adam Smith – for he knows the answer, at least 87 percent of the time, is yes.'
levitt & dubner | freakonomics | society |