- The supposition of the subject: what enables us to move from the perception of acts performed by x as speech acts to the perception of x as the subject-agent of these acts, and thus as a speaking, thinking and living subject like myself, is the ability to attribute to other beings a subjective certitude (certitudo de supposito), based on their supposed ability to perceive themselves as the supposes of their acts
- Lecture summary
- The question of man and the question of the subject: the question of man was not born with Kant, the "question of the subject" predates the 16th century, and the two questions are inseparable
- Back to Augustine: Heidegger's Augustinian "becoming a question of/for oneself"(das sich-zur-Frage-werden)
- Foucault's two "paths": the question "What is man?" with Kant; the question of the self with Plato
- The "way" of the archaeology of the subject
- The question of the thinking subject was not born with Descartes. It can be articulated in a medieval quadrilateral in which four questions are composed, called or linked together: Who thinks? What is the subject of thought? What are we? What is man?
- Lengthening the questionnaire: from the 14th century to the Utrecht Quarrel.
- The "question of the subject" in Hermeneutics of the Subject
- Foucault's interpretation of the self: introduction of the "subject" instead of the "self" in Alcibiades
- Foucault instills the schema of subjectivity in "Tu as à t'occuper de toi-même" and "le couplage heauton/psukhê "
- "What is the subject we assume when we evoke the activity of speech that is Socrates' towards Alcibiades?"
- For Foucault, Plato invents the "soul-subject
- The soul as "subject of khrêsis
- Plato's Hermeneutics of the Subject reads attributivism* and subjectivity
- This is not the case in "The Return of Morality" (1984)
- Philosophical archaeology and deconstruction
- Deconstruction" according to Heidegger'sIntroduction to Phenomenological Research (1923/1924)
- to "free Dasein from the conceptual excrescences it has configured to explain itself": "consciousness, person and subject", "by bringing them back to their original source"
- Three Foucauldian obstacles to deconstruction: "the death of man", "the end of humanism", "the death of the subject"
- Foucault's fundamental question, "the one he would like to ask", is the transformation that the subject must undergo upon himself in order to gain access to truth
- Conversion and the condition of spirituality
- Foucault's opposition between ancient philosophy as a way of life and scholasticism
- Its sources, its limits
- Announcement of 2015 study topic: will and action
10:30 - 11:30
Lecture
Inventio subiecti. The invention of the modern subject (12)
Alain de Libera
10:30 - 11:30
