Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 88 No. 4, 2018.
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The Moral Subject Without (Any External) Limitation in Care of the Self. Ethical Elements in the Philosophy of Michel Foucault
Franjo Mijatović
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In this paper, the author deals with the ethical elements of the work of M. Foucault. Following the antique ethicists and philosophy, Foucault proclaims the ethics of care of the self as an art of leading a good life. In Foucault’s ethics, care of the self as an ethical imperative appears in the form of resistance to any moral code or rule, to all forms of human moral slavery, and to any type of universalisation of social norms. Therefore, the aim of this article is to show how Foucault’s ethics, although strongly emphasising the element of concern for personal moral self, ultimately is not simply individualistic or narcissistic. The ethics of care of the self is primarily a responsibility for the self, for one’s own selfhood by way of various moral practices, i.e. logos and parrhesia through which the human being is perfected and transformed. M. Foucault seeks to overcome this exclusivity between care of the self, as an ethical imperative, and altruism to which all current ethics is directed, by actualising parrhesia in his discourse and action. The phenomenon of care of the self is primary, because worrying about one’s own morality enables a spurious, autonomous, and free ethical manner of existence and the possibility of taking responsibility for others by forming oneself into a proper ethical subject.
Ključne riječi
Foucault; care of the self; ethics; parrhesia; transformation; self‑formation.
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212932
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Datum izdavanja:
17.12.2018.
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