FOUCAULT O PARRHÉSII: SOKRATES VERZUS DIOGENES

• Authors: Suvák Ladislav

Title variants

EN

Foucault on parrhesia: Socrates vs. Diogenes

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with Foucault’s last lectures at the Collège de France (1981 – 1984). Their main theme is relationship between subject and truth. In the Hermeneutics of the subject, Foucault starts to study a concept of the care of the self which has acquired an ethical dimension in Socrates, and wants to follow its transformations into later Greek-Roman philosophy. On the basis of three texts by Plato, he shows that the Socratic-Platonic concept of self-concern is closely connected with self-knowledge. In his last lecture entitled “The courage of the truth”, Foucault compares it with a Cynical approach to life. Now, he can see that there is a difference between Socrates and Diogenes that gives the Cynical way of life a different character. This difference plays an important role in the history of Western subjectivity.

Keywords

EN

FOUCAULT MICHEL; PARRESIA; SOCRATES; DIOGENES; CYNIC

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 75
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 224 – 236

Contributors

author

Suvák Ladislav

• Inštitút filozofie, Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, Prešov, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2020.75.3.5