The listening and the self-care: the subjectivity of the truth

Abstract

This article intends to investigate, starting from the notion of self-care, studied by Michel Foucault in his course of 1982, the relationship that the listening establishes with the truth in the Greek-Roman Antiquity. It is about perceiving three movements in that sense. The first of them is the instauration of a new pedagogic model, in substitution to the proposed in the Socratic-platonic tradition. The listening culture is born and the dialogue disappears. The second movement is related to such listening technique applied to a self governing. The subject of the self care is more of straight action, than of true knowledge. And finally, a third movement analyzes the relationship that the listening establishes with the truth, in the governing on the other ones. For the pagan philosophy what is put in check is the establishment of a pedagogic model between master and disciple, in a horizontality relationship, in which the master cares for his disciple's autonomy.