Logos (Jun 2007)
Decir verdadero y ontología en Platón. Un análisis desde Foucault
Abstract
Foucault’s analysis of “parrhesy” ends his project of a “history of the truth”. The parrhesy shows the being of the subject as only activity and, thus, it points out the essential limit between the subject’s being as éthos and the subject’s being as téchne. That is, it points out the border, which we can find first in Plato, between philosophy and rethoric (non-philosophy). The purpose of this paper is to show that (1) philosophy is un-thematized as opposed to the dependence of the theme of rhetoric.( 2) Philosohy is duty, the acknowledgment of the factical finitude of man (soul), and criticism, the discovery of the need of truth-telling in the game of the soul and the pólis.(3) Philosophy is the exposition to the danger that means the decadence of the pólis, as opposed to the assurance of the more advantageous position in it.
