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Michel Foucault’s ”The Subject and Power”

Theory & Philosophy

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The Confession Box

According to fuco, this pastoral power that had a lot of influence on government began to mix with other forms of state power. He says people would then begin to recognize that what is right and wrong being determined by god. Fuco: People became responsible not only for their eventual salvation at the end of their life by entering heaven, but also in what it meant to be a good citizen.

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