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AFTER THE CRISIS OF political parrhēsia, or at least the crisis of political institutions as a possible site for parrhēsia, today I would like to begin the study of parrhēsia, of the practice of truth-telling in the field of ethics, and to do this I will obviously start again with Socrates as someone who is ready to face death rather than renounce truth-telling, but who does not practice this truth-telling by taking the floor in public and saying what he thinks, without disguise, before the people at the Assembly. Socrates has the courage to tell the truth, accepts the risk of death in order to tell the truth, but he does so by practicing the testing of souls in the game of ironic cross-examination.
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Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (2011). 15 February 1984. In: Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (eds) The Courage of the Truth (The Government of Self and Others II). Michel Foucault. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230309104_5
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