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- Title
La reivindicación de la parresía en el último Foucault: algunas resonancias latinoamericanas y colombianas.
- Authors
Echeverri, Santiago Borda-Malo
- Abstract
This article is an excerpt from our broad approach to the issue of Parrhesia. The French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) taught courses at the College of France (Paris) and wrote three very significant books: "The Hermeneutics of the Subject", "The Government Itself and the Others", and "The Courage of Truth, the Government Itself and the Other II". They mark a significant shift in philosophical meditation. However, little has been taken into account in the critical studies about his life and work. In fact it goes back to the Greek scholars, notably Socrates and Plato, and then the Greco-Roman schools: stoics (Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius), cynics (Diogenes) and their knowledge of the naturalistic and sincere in order to call upon the Fathers of the Church. In this thesis we question the hypothesis that the philosopher made a significant "epistemological break", a landmark without precedents in Western philosophy. This fills a void of reluctant academic philosophy to express the truth without consideration of a world where rampant lying occurs in multiple forms, as Alexandre Koyré would say. In other words, the thesis touches on sophisms and fallacies. The theology to vindicate Parrhesia ("speaking frankly") as a key word in the style of the current Pope Francisco ('Evangelii Gaudium', 2013) is also introduced. It is a fusion of theory and practice which can positively revolutionize our decadent contemporary society. Finally, we briefly review some details of the reception of Foucauldian thinking in both Latin America and Colombia. Thus, challenging the current trend to further reduce the French thinker to just another academic trend.
- Publication
Quaestiones Disputatae, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 17, p136
- ISSN
2011-0472
- Publication type
Article