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Bergson, Henri Louis

The hands of a clock go around and round. They move unendingly along the circumference of the clock-face in a continuous repetition or they move eternally along an infinite line. But that is not how we experience time. While clock-time tends to be seen as a steady,...

Foucault, Michel Paul

Foucault finds a foothold for prioritizing the question of self-care in Plato’s Alcibiades. In this dialogue Socrates becomes the spiritual teacher of Alcibiades in the latter’s quest for self-knowledge. And Foucault asks: “In that relationship, why should Alcibiades...