Aristotle said in the Metaphysics that, “All men by nature desire Knowledge”. If one accepts the claim that knowledge is power, as told by many NBC commercials in the late nineties, then it is logical to assert that all people desire power. In Michel Foucault's “Discipline and Punish” he clearly shows the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale, and how these affect society as a whole. Foucault shocks the reader immediately with his depiction of torture and death. He then applies this notion of power in tracing the rise of the prison system in France and the rise of other coercive institutions such as monasteries, the army, mental asylums, and other technologies. In Calvin O. Schrag
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