The Ethical and Political Significance of Michel Foucault’s Ancient Technology of the Care of the Self

• Authors: Kli Maria
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The ethical constitution of the subject in Michel Foucault’s work relies on the way truth is perceived, and on the way the knowledge of truth is produced. Foucault understands subjectivity as constituted socio-historically by means of particular techniques, which he refers to as “Technologies of the Self.” The main focus of this paper is to present the way in which two different kinds of approaching the truth, the modern scientific and the ancient Greek one, develop different kinds of technologies as ways of forming the subjectivity. It is maintained that the ancient technology of the care of the self can be especially meaningful in contemporary society from an ethical and political perspectives.

Keywords

EN

subject; care of the self; technologies of the self; ancient Greek philosophy; spirituality; ethics; science; politics; freedom

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 189-202

Contributors

author

Kli Maria

• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.