THE ETHICS OF SELF-CARE AND PERSONALIST ETHICS: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MICHEL FOUCAULT AND EMMANUEL MOUNIER

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to foster a dialogue between the ethics of self-care, developed by Michel Foucault, and the personalist ethics, created by Emmanuel Mounier. Thus, this work is divided into three parts: understanding the notion of the ethics of self-care in Michel Foucault; to outline the main aspects of personalist ethics in Emmanuel Mounier and finally, to draw a parallel between these two ethics, recognizing in them different ways to think about subjectivity, freedom and commitment to the other. The methodology used in this work is theoretical research, carried out through bibliographic research involving the investigated theme. The relevance of this work lies in the possibility of debating ethics in the search for a new human action in the face of the crises that the world is going through.