PREMISES OF THE ETHICAL RESPONSABILITY IN MICHEL FOUCAULT'S WORKS Cover Image

Premize ale responsabilităţii etice la Michel Foucault
PREMISES OF THE ETHICAL RESPONSABILITY IN MICHEL FOUCAULT'S WORKS

Author(s): Victor Ioan Chira
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: Michel Foucault; Ethics; Responsibility; Care of the self; Subject; Truth;

Summary/Abstract: The ethical responsibility it's not, at a first view, a major issue in Michel Foucault's philosophy but reading his writings, with a bigger attention for details and the research of an interpretation key for his work, on the whole, determine us to accept the thesis that his work contains significant ethical approaches. Reading his work by this interpretation key we shall discover a moral meaning, more precisely ethical aspects of the moral. In this article we had been proposing to present the way the speech about truth and relationships of power participate to the construction of moral subject but also to indicate the necessary premises of the ethical responsibilization of the individuals. Which are the necessary conditions to allow us to talk about a responsible subject, regarded from an ethical perspective?

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 425-431
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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