Los pliegues de la subjetividad: individuo y responsabilidad moral en la Grecia Antigua

Greek morality has been subject of various interpretations by scholars and philosophers. On one hand, there is an exegetic line, which arises from German tradition and sees in Greek morality from Homer to Hellenistic times a progressive development where basic notions of Western Ethics were originated. On the other hand, from the seventies in the twentieth century on, many critical lines to this positions have emphasize the continuities regarding moral notions within Greek culture, and between the Greeks and us. Here I will firstly map these two main lines of interpretation about this topic. I will analyze both of them, in order to see the similarities and differences between them and appreciate their philosophical grounds. Secondly, I will propose a specific starting point to see the possible changes in Greek morality: the beginning and development of the concept of enkrateia or self-control. I will show that, although this word appears for the first time in the testimonies of the fourth century B.C., it originated in the fifth century. Lastly, I will consider this topic from the point of view of Foucault’s philosophy and its Deleuzian interpretation