权力如何在社会中运作?这仅仅是胁迫他人的问题还是会影响到我们是谁?肯认为，权力影响人们所占据的社会类别，并限制他们接受这些类别的能力，他以古希腊为例。他引入了米歇尔·福柯的知识论——一系列影响我们与社会世界互动方式的背景权力关系。乔希反驳说，权力必须是多面的、关系更密切的，而不是绝对的。

The hosts are joined by guest Gary Gutting, professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He joins the discussion by introducing the link between power and knowledge that Foucault establishes in his work. While Ken questions what the metaphysical justification for this theory looks like, Gary reiterates that Foucault’s project primarily tried to establish a method for analyzing power in particular situations. Discussing the link between power and knowledge, Gary offers that certain institutions of knowledge – such as those of criminology – create the things they seek to study (i.e., the label of the criminal). Josh questions whether this paints society in too much of a pessimistic light, to which Gary quotes Foucault in saying: “It’s not that everything is bad, but everything is dangerous.”

在节目的最后一部分，肯、乔什和加里继续讨论如何抵抗权力。这既包括关于主体性的一般性讨论，也包括关于当前反权力运动的特别讨论。加里以性革命为例，说明权力可以使看似进步的发展变得像前辈一样具有限制性。此外，在“黑人的命也是命”等当前运动的话题上，加里提出了权力的流动性，以及今天的社会倡导者在参与权力结构时需要如何考虑过去的运动。否则，运动可能无法完全克服过去的偏见。

• Roving Philosophic Report (Seek to 6:55):Liza Veale discusses the efforts of the Social Justice Summit, a conference where organizers try to encourage more personal relations to politics and power. Like these movements, Foucault exposed how power exists throughout society, giving people the opportunity to challenge it in a variety of different ways in an effort to fight the norms it generates.
• Sixty-Second Philosopher (Seek to 46:15):伊恩·肖尔斯讨论了他自己与福柯文学的接触。他还提到了福柯的信念，即你如何组织信息是一种强大的力量，产生了一种接近知识的有用的启发式。