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The coupling of the detailed verbalization of fault and exploration of oneself. Its origin: neither the procedures of baptism nor those of penance, but the monastic institution. ~ Techniques of testing the soul and public manifestation (publication) of oneself before Christianity. Verbalization of fault and exploration of oneself in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Difference from Christianity. ~ (III) The practice of spiritual direction (direction de con-science). Its main characteristics: a free, voluntary, unlimited bond aiming at access to a certain relationship of self to self. Comment on the relation between the structure of political authority and the practice of direction. Non-institutional and institutional practices (philosophical schools) of direction in Greece and Rome. A fundamental technique: examination of conscience. How it differs from Christian examination of conscience. Two examples of ancient examination of conscience: the Pythagorean Carmen aureum; Seneca’s De ira, III, 36.
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Senellart, M., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (2014). 12 March 1980. In: Senellart, M., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (eds) On The Government of the Living. Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491824_10
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