Souci de Moi, appropriation et réhabilitation
Self-concern, Appropriation and Restoration
Author(s): Jean-Claude VuilleminSubject(s): Hermeneutics, Ontology, Rhetoric
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: Foucault; care of the self; knowledge of the self; Cynics; Descartes; parrêsia; modernity;
Summary/Abstract: According to Foucault, Descartes ultimately confirmed the prevalence of the Delphic injunction “know thyself” (gnôthi seauton) over a precept which had previously ruled supreme: the “care of the self” (epimeleia heautou). This does not imply that philosophy cannot renew with its former status when the Self played a prevalent part. This article argues in favor of a philosophy in which the Self would invent itself through a reciprocal harmony between logos (discourses) and ergon (actions).
Journal: ALKEMIE. Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie
- Issue Year: 1/2022
- Issue No: 29
- Page Range: 75-96
- Page Count: 24
- Language: French
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