FOUCAULT'S PERSPECTIVE ON “THE CARE OF THE SELF” IN CHRISTIANITY AND THE LACK OF SOME CENTRAL ELEMENTS - THE FACE AND THE SACRAMENT
FOUCAULT'S PERSPECTIVE ON “THE CARE OF THE SELF” IN CHRISTIANITY AND THE LACK OF SOME CENTRAL ELEMENTS - THE FACE AND THE SACRAMENT

Summary/Abstract: The basic idea of this study is to invalidate the conclusion reached by Foucault when trying to analyze in Christianity the obligations of truth which concern the self (assimilated to the soul), and namely that by exomologesis and exagoreusis, as Christian techniques, are founded one of the main forms of our obedience - towards others, or towards the system - the binding confession being for him a way of enslaving the individual. By not understanding the essence of Christianity - i.e. lacking the metaphysical dimension, face and sacrament of the data upon which the research is done - it is natural for Foucault to reach to a wrong conclusion, reason for which he is proposing new techniques of care of the self (after the model of the practices of the self in the Romanian Stoicism, specifying that these practices of the self are relational and transversal, not of the community nor individual) as a shield against the domineering systems, with a Humanist mask.

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