ANT365H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Morality, Deontological Ethics
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Foucault"s conception of ethics and the self contrast with other ideas. ^focuses on the way in which the self is created. Ethics is indissociable from reflective nature of the human consciousness. ^human capacity for self-reflection at the heart of ethics. ^foucault says it cannot be fully understood through knowledge. ^ethics implies a degree of active engagement impossible to have absolutely no relation to yourself. ^as ethics is not passive, it is a form of labour. Third of the collaries is the way we think about the connection of ethics to morality. ^they are distinct from each other, although they are related. ^ethics is when you try to turn yourself into a particular type of person. ^morality has to deal with matters of write or wrong, good or bad and directs attention towards others. Moral code pertaining to sexual is the most constant. ^same acts are prohibited through the classical era into the christian period.
