Author
Cynthia Skenazi
Year
2013
Publisher
Brill
Language
English
Pages
47
Last Update
03-Sep-2024
Keywords
History
nThe Use of Pleasure and in his lectures at the Collège de France on theHermeneutics of the Subject , Foucault studied different practices associated with the care of the self. For the intellectual male elite of Greek and Roman Antiquity, to know oneself was founded upon the pragmatic commitment to take care of oneself.¹ The Platonic dialogues mark a pivotal moment since the care of the self became inseparable from the Delphic imperative of knowing oneself: in order to take care of oneself properly, Socrates tells his interlocutor, one must know oneself, that is one must know how to...
