Etinio subjekto re-konstravimas
Re-construction of the Ethical Subject

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of constitution of the ethical subject considering the challenges that emerge in the age of technology. The questions are whether the technological and instrumental systems allow the process of self-constitution of the ethical subject and how the measure of responsibility of this ethical subject is founded. The hypothesis is examined that Michel Foucault’s later philosophy could help us to rethink the question of the constitution of the ethical subject taking into consideration the ways of its being and behaviour as practices that are formed in contact with challenges that emerge in the areas of social and ecological ethics. Firstly, the Foucauldian problematisation of the question of the ethical subject is reconstructed and the paradoxes of his approach are investigated. Secondly, the correlation of the genealogy of technology with the question of the constitution of ethical subject and Foucault’s notion of the “techniques of the self” is analysed. Thirdly, two models of the ethical relations with oneself and others – the juridical model and the model of positive enjoyment – are discussed and the question is raised whether the ethical practice that is grounded on the model of enjoyment could provide the positive alternatives for contemporary ethical thought.

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