The quote is from an interview called "On the Genealogy of Ethics:
An Overview of Work in Progress" and can be found in "Michel Foucault:
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics" or a new collection called "Ethics:
Subjectivity and Truth". Foucault is speaking about the Greek's
understanding of ethics and the care of the self, and his full quote runs as
follows:
"Recent liberation movements suffer from the fact that they cannot find any
principle on which to base the elaboration of a new ethics. They need and
ethics, but they cannot find any other ethics than an ethics founded on
so-called scientific knowledge of what the self is, what desire is, what the
unconscious is, and so on."
Michael Reid
At 03:59 07/05/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I've been going nuts trying to track this down: "The newer liberation
>movements suffer from their inability to find a principle on the basis of
>which they can work out a new ethics." Many thanks in advance to anyone
>who can give me a reference.
>
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>Matthew A. King ---- Department of Philosophy ---- McMaster University
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> "The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit
> suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness."
> (Michel Foucault)
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>
Michael Reid
mreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
Sidney Smith Building, 3rd Floor
100 St.George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Canada
(416) 923-4318
An Overview of Work in Progress" and can be found in "Michel Foucault:
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics" or a new collection called "Ethics:
Subjectivity and Truth". Foucault is speaking about the Greek's
understanding of ethics and the care of the self, and his full quote runs as
follows:
"Recent liberation movements suffer from the fact that they cannot find any
principle on which to base the elaboration of a new ethics. They need and
ethics, but they cannot find any other ethics than an ethics founded on
so-called scientific knowledge of what the self is, what desire is, what the
unconscious is, and so on."
Michael Reid
At 03:59 07/05/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I've been going nuts trying to track this down: "The newer liberation
>movements suffer from their inability to find a principle on the basis of
>which they can work out a new ethics." Many thanks in advance to anyone
>who can give me a reference.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Matthew A. King ---- Department of Philosophy ---- McMaster University
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit
> suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness."
> (Michel Foucault)
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
Michael Reid
mreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
Sidney Smith Building, 3rd Floor
100 St.George St.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
Canada
(416) 923-4318