“Knowledge is power.”

— Thomas Hobbes , book Leviathan

This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century. … This sentence brings to an end the tradition of a knowledge that, as its name indicates, was an erotic theory—the love of truth and the truth through love (Liebeswahrheit). … Those who utter the sentence reveal the truth. However, with the utterance they want to achieve more than truth: They want to intervene in the game of power.
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. xxvii
Source: Leviathan

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