...were intended to constitute the eventual framework of everyday conduct. These texts thus served as functional devices that would enable individuals to...give shape to it, and to shape themselves as ethical subject. (Foucault, 1986a: 12.-13) The most important characteristic of these ethical texts was their...

...to how to behave as one should" (p. 12l. His understanding is that such texts serve as devices that enable individuals to "question their own conduct,...to it, and to shape themselves as ethical subjects" (p. 13l. To analyze pleasure this way is clearly a departure from either the idea that pleasure occurs...

...were intended to constitute the eventual framework of everyday conduct. These texts thus served as functional devices that would enable individuals to...to it, and to shape themselves as ethical subjects; in short, their function was 'etho,poetic,' to transpose a word found in Plutarch. But since this analysis...

...to the Greeks' prescriptions for sexual austerity, Foucault concludes, "These texts thus served as functional devices that would enable individuals to...to it, and to shape themselves as ethical subjects; in short, their function was 'ethno-poetic,' to transpose a word found in Plutarch."i2 One wonders...

...vocabularies constituted an ethical relationship of the self to itself, a so-called ethos. They enabled individuals "to question their own conduct, to watch over and give shape to it, and shape themselves as ethical subject" (1986a, 12-13). Foucault then distinguishes four aspects of the...

...should." These texts were "designed to be read, learned, reflected upon, and tested out." They were "functional devices that would enable individuals...give shape to it, and to shape themselves as ethical subjects."43 The key phrase is "shape themselves." Embedded in the texts was the assumption that individuals...