Self-care and Parrhesia from Foucault's perspective - Philosophy as spirituality

The practice of self-care permeates our entire Western culture and is established in our society in various ways, in religion with the practices of confession, in psychology within the practices of journal writing and in holistic therapies that come closer to the spiritual exercises practised by the philosophers of antiquity. Thus, for philosophers of today, it is necessary to rescue these practices as an ethopoietic learning, for a philosophical doing devoid of the moulds of modernity that judges philosophy to be only what can be known through reason, in an epistemological approach that counteracts that of conversion to philosophical life, which consists of a work of self-formation of the individual, which makes him an expert Parrhesiasta. Better said, he who in his way of life, tells the truth about himself, without even saying a word. However, for the exercise of this truth, it is necessary to know oneself, which refers to the care that one has with oneself.

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Licenciada en Filosofía por la Universidad Estatal de Rio Grande do Norte. Terapeuta Holístico. Benzedeira.

Product details

• Authors: Ozil_ia Corrêa de Souza, Ozil¿ia Corrêa de Souza
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9786206296447
• ISBN: 9786206296447
• No. of pages: 52
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works