Freedom and its risks today
One of the themes considered a strong dish of ethics is freedom and I call it that because it has become a controversial theme, from the classic horizon in marked by the Greeks, through the Middle Ages and the great Christian thinkers, untilThe modern era and postmodernist philosophers. To deny or assume freedom is in a certain sense a commitment and a way of life is therefore that the analysis that can be carried out on this subject is important from ethics.
In this work I will try to develop the reflection on "freedom and its risks" supporting me of the writing "ethics and care of whether as a practice of freedom" Foucault, m.
For Foucault "Freedom is the ontological condition of ethics. But ethics is the reflected form that takes freedom ”with this thought the French philosopher invites us to travel from individuality to the community, since as he himself affirms“ the care of himself implies the care of the other. However, at present at the cusp of knowledge we find true acts of atrocity towards other human beings, there is egocentrism and has distorted the true sense of freedom that must operate in the subject.
For Foucault, the risk of freedom resides precisely in the distortion of the sense of freedom in which the subject when he believes himself owns himself, also believes owner of others, exercising that domain, returns to the individual in a tyrant being, whoIt is not known to administer, or administer to others, that it is not known to govern himself and therefore as he thinks he can govern others.
From Foucault’s perspective, "ethics is the practice of freedom, but of reflected freedom". That is, man must live the vocation of being free, taking care of himself and others make him live that freedom fully.
Foucault mentions the policy of life, this is nothing other than "power seeks to take care of life" and points to medicine turned into an authoritarian power "which implies that it refers to bioethics.
But not everything is negative around bioethics, the importance of bioethics regarding the care of itself, lies in the reflection that must be made in its ethical application, taking care of life not only individually but collectively, living solidarity thatYou must have the most weak to the weakest, looking for the common good. The fundamental task of bioethics is to take care of life in general and fulfilling its mission is also a human exercise, free and therefore ethical.
At present, it becomes enormous relevance to be able to reflect on the treatment and importance of the issue of freedom and its classroom risks. Since students are immersed in an egocentrist world, bombarded by a nihilistic ideology that day by day exalts individualism more and lets overwhelm their passions, distorting the true sense of freedom on the one hand and on the other they dispose of the world that surrounds them.
Touching these issues helps students rediscover not only as individuals, but as a community, make him discover that his vocation to freedom is not for him, but as a member of a society with which he shares not only a territory, a language, but a common purpose: take care of yourself, and transcend the care not only of itself, but of others, not only human life, but of life in general.
Finally we must run the risk of being free, but also contribute responsibly to free.
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