El paradigma de los griegos: una interpretación foucaultiana del cuidado

Marta da Costa Nunes

doi:10.63413/disputatio.936

Marta da Costa Nunes Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

DOI: https://doi.org/10.63413/disputatio.936

Keywords: Care, Courage, Democracy, Foucault, Truth

Abstract

Following The Hermeneutics of the Subject, a course Foucault gave at Collège de France in 1982, the goal of this paper is to clarify the understanding of the care of the self in late Antiquity. In order to do so, the paper is divided in two sections: In the first section, I explore the elements advanced by the Apology of Socrates and Foucault’s interpretation, namely, the relationship between truth, care of the self, care of others, techniques of the self, morals and politics. In the second section, I look for a deeper characterization of the care, as primary ontological condition that opens up to a philosophical activity that, in many senses, collides with the ways in which we conceive of Philosophy as discipline today. I conclude by showing why Foucault’s return to the ancients is still relevant today, since through his lenses one arrives at a better place in order to imagine and delineate new techniques of the self.

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The paradigm of the Greeks — A Foucaultian interpretation of care

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