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Ideas for 'Clitophon', 'Resurrecting Biological Essentialism' and 'Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom'

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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

7419	Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault]
	Full Idea: What is ethics, if not the practice of freedom, the conscious [réfléchie] practice of freedom?
	From: Michel Foucault (Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom [1984], p.284)
	A reaction: Makes Foucault sound very existentialist. I'm not sure I understand this kind of remark, given that serial killers seem to be exceptionally good at 'practising their freedom'. However, the idea is akin to Kant's notion of a truly good will (Idea 3710).