history of ethics

is understood as a history of the forms of moral subjectivation and of the practices of self that are meant to ensure it.

and finally, a history of the way in which in­dividuals are urged to constitute themselves as subjects of moral conduct would be concerned with the models proposed for setting up and developing relationships with the self, for self-reflection, self-knowledge, self-examination, for the deci­pherment of the self by oneself, for the transformations that one seeks to accomplish with oneself as object. This last is what might be called a history of "ethics" and "ascetics," understood as a history of the forms of moral subjectivation and of the practices of self that are meant to ensure it. (29)

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history of ethics