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| Author(s): |
Dioclézio Domingos Faustino
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2020-09-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Marilena de Souza Chaui;
Salma Tannus Muchail;
Carolina de Souza Noto;
Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle
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| Advisor: | Marilena de Souza Chaui |
| Abstract | |
This study intends to show that, in Michel Foucault\'s philosophy, the care of the self is a notion that has rather a function of criticizing morality and, therefore, criticizing a certain mode of production of modern subjectivity, than the claim of principle ethical. We start from the observation that, according to Foucault, between the 1st and 2nd centuries of our era, there is a discontinuity in the history of morals in the West. This discontinuity is verified by the passage from a modality of relation to oneself that took the form of a \"use of pleasures\" (among the Greeks of the classical era) to a form of \"deciphering the desire\" (in the philosophy of the Roman imperial era). And that, in a second moment in the course of this history, in the 4th and 5th centuries, there is a new and decisive inflection with the advent of \"Christian self-practices\", in which the care of the self is incorporated into pastoral power and, thus, to take care of yourself, it is necessary to make a \"renunciation of yourself\". The roots of our (modern) subjectivity are more linked to this second movement because it opens the way for what will be constituted in modernity as a \"hermeneutic of the subject\" and the consequent privilege of \"knowledge of the self\". The care of the self runs through this period, that is, from classical Greek times to primitive Christianity, and it functions as a kind of critical notion that allows the moral genealogist to investigate and detect these transformations and their implications for the constitution of moral. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/20992-3 - About the care of the self: Foucault reader of the ancients |
| Grantee: | Dioclézio Domingos Faustino |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |