Technologies of self and the cultivation of virtues
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2015
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Hattam, R.
Baker, B.
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Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2015; 49(2):255-273
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In this article we engage with and against Foucault’s provocation to think about diagrams of subjectivation. With Foucault we take up his meditation on spirituality and propose a Buddhist alternative to Greco-Roman technologies of self. Against Foucault’s notion of an ‘arts of existence’ we suggest instead ‘cultivation of virtue’, drawing on, as an example, a famous Buddhist meditation on compassion. We conclude the article by proposing rethinking doctoral supervision in termsof a cultivation of virtue.
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Copyright 2015 The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.