Knowledge, Power, Ethics And Personality Liberation

Michiel Foucault's philosophy theory is basically a sort of postmodern philosophy. But in the onrushing tide wave of postmodern theories, he developed a school of his own. The author respectively summarized three aspects of Foucault's thought, including his Archaeology, Genealogy and Ethnics, and discussed his tenet. The purpose is to make a progress in our understanding of Foucault's philosophy. The article combined narration and discussion without making a distinguishment between them. This article is divided into four parts as following:The first part is about the interpreting of the code of knowledge. The part summarized his ten years works from early 60's to early 70's of the last century. During this period, Foucault used Archaeology methods to review text, discourse and knowledge, his viewpoint about them, and his Archaeology methods. The author analyzed his primary works, including '.Insane and Civilization, the Birth of the Clinic, the Order of the Things and the Archaeology of Knowledge. His work in this period as a whole discomposed the western ideological tradition, i.e. the logos tradition from Plato. He disclosed the suppression of sense to nonsense, probed the absurd course of logos's hegemony position and analyzed the snap and diversion of sense knowledge procession, which knolled the passing bell of modern western culture. Human being is in the dust, is a slogan which Foucault made to horrify the mundane. That means the overflowing of subjects in western and the modern episteme which take human being as its center burst up. It is my opinion that Foucault's work in this period is also a sort of construction. When clearing up traditional hegemonic of sense and knowledge, he reconstructed the independent individual subject. He tried hard to make the theoretical selfhood break away from the suppression from traditional knowledge so that he set a theoretical and intellective basis for the unbinding of selfhood.The second part is about the unscrambling of the rule of puissance. The part summed up Foucault's progeny in the 1970's when he used the genealogy methods to analyze potence. The author draws his primary works during this period, including the Discipline and Punish, the Order of the things and the first volume of the History of sexuality: the Will to truth. Foucault analyzed the suppression of potency to discourse. Through the seeing about the evolution of the punishment history, he revealed the rule to individual's body by social force. By analyzing the sexual discourse, Foucault opened up the inbreaking of common power to sexuality and discovered the adheringconnection between power and knowledge. Hereon, he investigated the complex relations between power, knowledge, body and intellectual. His investigation indicates that the modem society is a production in which the power mechanism operates. What is called civilization and progression is just the power govern techniques, just a counter change of political churchy. So human in modern society becomes a powertraining object by the rule. As a result, Foucault sparked and pluged people to resist at every moment and everywhere. All people should dig up the hachet to every people and refuse to be the manufacture of power. To my viewpoint, On the one hand, Foucault's analysis is to clear up the molding of social power to human and overthrow its authority and domination. On the other hand, Foucault stinked man's social selfhood, apped the diverse lay of human bardian to break loose from the all over rule of social teaching to strive for the potency of self-plastic to obtain a sort of uncontrolled developing state. Foucault's efforts intented to attest that the developing of social obligation technique is licking up individual's special personality. Human is facing crisis, we must take action to save ourselves.The third part is about reliving of ethics. The part focused on the narration of Foucault's research on ancient Greece and Rome's sexual ethnic in his late years in the 1980's. The author generalized the second and the third volume of...