Michel Foucault, a highly influential French philosopher whose work focused on exploring and critically analysing relations of power in society and their influence on individuals, thought that philosophy’s task is to notice what we take for granted and bring it to our attention so that we can actually see what we see. I wonder what Foucault would have said about The Matrix film. Is philosophy the red pill?
“The role of philosophy is not to discover what is hidden, but to make visible precisely what is visible, that is to say, to make evident what is so close, so immediate, so intimately linked to us, that because of that we do not perceive it. Whereas the role of science is to reveal what we do not see, the role of philosophy is to let us see what we see.”
Foucault
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