Abstract
By establishing the sciences of life while, at the same time, forming a certain self-knowledge, the human being altered itself as a living being by taking on the character of a rational subject acquiring the power to act on itself, changing its living conditions and its own life .... [There is a] kinship between the discourse on limit-experience, when it was a matter of the subject transforming itself, and the discourse on the transformation of the subject itself through the construction of a knowledge. (Foucault, 2000, 296)1.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 350-367 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Medicine and Philosophy |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Issues, ethics and legal aspects
- Philosophy