What's the difference between panopticon and philosopher?

Panopticon


Definition:

  • (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.
  • (n.) A room for the exhibition of novelties.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The panopticon-like New Broadcasting House, the enlarged central London HQ that opened last year, was designed without offices for individual executives, though Hall insisted on having one – he occupies a former meeting room – and Yentob has improvised one.
  • (2) One of the artists, Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez, explains that the panopticon-shaped space, called Güiro, was inspired by the interior of a notorious Cuban jail – only here the jailer is a bartender and the prisoners are the drinkers.
  • (3) The phrase itself has sparked a rhetorical battle between techno-utopianists and postmodern flâneurs: should the city be an optimised panopticon, or a melting pot of cultures and ideas?
  • (4) We fear gangs and mobs, so we happily have CCTV, schools built as panopticons , unprecedented surveillance and control.
  • (5) As always, this isn't a straightforward equation – a panopticon effect in which we are monitored by a faceless watchman and receive nothing in return.
  • (6) Rather than allow the commercial realities of modern telco billing systems to get in the way of a panopticon , George Brandis, the attorney-general, has announced that the government will require ISPs to create and maintain vast warehouses of commercially pointless metadata anyway, so the spooks and plods can browse through it at their leisure.
  • (7) But we don't need the panopticon once we have built one in our own minds.
  • (8) This was the thinking behind Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon , a model for a jail where a single watching guard could survey a whole prison of inmates (the model, by the way, for Zamyatin's One State).

Philosopher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.
  • (n.) One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness.
  • (n.) An alchemist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (2) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
  • (3) This ongoing argument is less about the players and more of a philosophical debate about two approaches to basketball.
  • (4) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
  • (5) Philosophers in the clinical setting do not make decisions.
  • (6) Eamonn Murphy, 66, a former brewery worker, was philosophical about the security.
  • (7) It is the practical and changing character of medicine and its language that frustrates the efforts of philosophers to formulate such definitions.
  • (8) Speaking in Athens last November, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben discussed an epochal transformation in the idea of government, "whereby the traditional hierarchical relation between causes and effects is inverted, so that, instead of governing the causes – a difficult and expensive undertaking – governments simply try to govern the effects".
  • (9) The government must act, it is often said, but philosophically it likes to see if matters resolve themselves.
  • (10) The youngsters who identified with her when they saw her in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 2001 can feel that she has yet to let them down, nearly 16 years later.
  • (11) · Jacques (Jackie) Derrida, philosopher, born July 15 1930; died October 8 2004
  • (12) Five items involved beliefs about exotic phenomena or philosophical ideas.
  • (13) He has hidden behind the most extraordinary Keynesian interventions of the Bank of England, never admitting the scale of the philosophic shift and then claimed victory.
  • (14) This article explores the concepts of power and knowledge from two philosophical perspectives, the feminist and the poststructuralist, and examines their application to nursing knowledge and nursing science.
  • (15) Even more pointedly, he attacked the common Republican philosophical refuge of the doctrine of unintended consequences, or, as he put it, “We can’t do anything because we don’t yet know everything.” “The bullshitters have gotten pretty lazy,” he said, and the previous six hours of debate coverage on Fox News could have told you as much.
  • (16) Gillon outlines the principles of the deontological, or duty-based, group of moral theories in one of a series of British Medical Journal articles on the philosophical foundations of medical ethics.
  • (17) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
  • (18) This is true also of the teaching of many moral philosophers, e.g.
  • (19) A philosophical framework that is likely to be congruent with psychiatric nursing, which is based on the nature of human beings, health, psychiatric nursing and reality, is identified.
  • (20) Not only doctors and prison officials took part in this meeting but also general practitioners, theologians, philosophers, ex-prisoners, judges, lawyers, Members of Parliament and Senators.

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