Practicing freedom: on Foucault and ethics

• Main Author: Kreye, Krystal Dawn
• Other Authors: Tully, James
• Language: English; en
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Michel Foucault; criticism and interpretation; ethics; UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Philosophy
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2238

This thesis investigates the work Michel Foucault produced in the late years of his life. During these years. Foucault gave many lectures on Ethics that were recently published into works. The thesis argues in favor of the differences he highlights between morality and ethics. and between care of self and knowledge of self. It tries to apply these differences to a modem day culture of the self in order to conclude that we must become aware of the complicated relationship one has with oneself and that this relationship is not simply one based on knowledge or rule-following. The consequence of this new study of self-relations should leave one the freedom. or open up the possibility. of developing different kinds of relationships with others.