ESSAY ON NOTION OF FOUCAULTIAN FREEDOM

Abstract

The issue of freedom, widely discussed in various areas of knowledge, worth, even if briefly, be discussed in the light of French thinker Michel Foucault. The freedom, that in modern times sometimes seems to be understood as a way to allow people to do any kind of act or even an act freely as a condition for the experience of pleasure and disengagement through Foucault starts to take a seemingly contradictory. In this sense, he deals with freedom as something that goes beyond the "freedom process" as something that brings with it the requirement of certain practices, the so-called "practice of freedom" as a condition of ethical living. This essay presents a cut that will make mention of two issues discussed by the philosopher: the sexual temperance and self-care. Finally, relevant considerations permeate the discussion of freedom as an aspect of work, as individual effort that goes beyond the collective, in search of balance and self-dominance in order to maintain and secure their own freedom.