Care of the self, truth-telling: art, thought and ethics of the subject

By taking some basic topics in education as a starting point (such as relationships between lore and knowledge, theory and practice, among others) we have attempted to analyze in this paper the relationships between subject and truth mediated by the notion of practices of the self. Initially, the discussion has considered the concept of care of the self in its ontological dimension, which involves both subject and lore and enables the problematization of the notion of the subject of knowledge. We have discussed the relationship between subject and truth by addressing the practice of parrhesia, or "fearless speech", as a concept that operates a pragmatics of discourse, which is inseparable from action and thought. By taking such concepts - care of the self, parrhesia - as keys to reading Foucault's works, we have assumed the deep alteration that such discussions introduce in his work and how much they enable us to think differently about educational topics and, beyond that, to think about ourselves.