FOUCAULT O PARRHÉSII: SOKRATES VERZUS DIOGENES

Year, pages: 2020, 224 - 236

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.

Suvák, V. 2020. FOUCAULT O PARRHÉSII: SOKRATES VERZUS DIOGENES. In Filozofia, vol. 75, no.3, pp. 224-236. 0046-385X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2020.75.3.5

Suvák, V. (2020). FOUCAULT O PARRHÉSII: SOKRATES VERZUS DIOGENES. Filozofia, 75(3), 224-236. 0046-385X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2020.75.3.5

Publisher: Filozofický ústav SAV / Institute of Phillosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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