Freedom and the idea of freedom
Introduction
Freedom and its risks What is the concept of freedom and how it operates in the subject? The author relates it to the concept "self-care". For him there is a sine qua non relationship between them. The concept is deeply influenced by the wisdom of the ancient world, the mandate of the Delphi temple "know yourself" was at the same time the mandate to take care of itself, the individual who takes care of each other takes care of others. Ontogeny reproduces phylogeny.
Developing
How does the author explain the risk of freedom? The topic of the risk of freedom has been analyzed by many philosophers and more or less in the same sense. Foucault, like the existentialists, part of the premise of the almost total ubiquity of freedom, it is basically very difficult for land to be totally disappeared. In the same line of analysis of Sartre, he talks about the ways of exercising freedom, violence, suicide, etc.
It also emphasizes in a different way to Marxism the idea of freedom, freedom is never in the first instance a way of relating to my historical time or my government, the reality is, however, a process or a domain of itself. What is the importance of bioethics regarding self-care? We had said that the care of itself is the care of the other, that there is an ontological relationship between both dimensions.
In addition, as Foucault is known, he always talked about power in terms of truth, the question that afflicts him is, how really subject-particular relationships are a form of the manifestation of power? That question that covers all your work, about sexuality, about language, about prisons and medicine;By the way, says Foucault: Medicine becomes an authoritarian power with normalizing functions that go far beyond the existence of diseases and the demand of the patient.
conclusion
As teachers, do we reflect on the treatment and importance of these issues in the classroom? Hardly, we have almost nobody read Foucault, however, clearly and more or less a priori, many teachers manage to reflect groups about self-care and different risk behaviors. The valuable thing about Foucault’s approach is that we are responsible for our own construction of the election of the project that each of us are.
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