History is no longer what
happened five, ten, fifteen years ago… history is last
week.
The understanding of one’s own life as a work of art,
despite respect for certain collective cannons, had been at
he core of a moral experience and the will to morality in antiquity.
Morality in Christianity however, with the religion of the
text, idea of God’s will and the principle of obedience,
has increasingly assumed the form of a codex of rules.
From antiquity to Christianity we tread the path of morality,
which had essentially been the search for ethics, to morality
as obedience to a system of rules. Idea of morality as obedience
to a codex of rules is now disappearing, that is, it has already
disappeared. This lack of morals corresponds to, and must correspond
to, a search for the aesthetics of existence.
Michel Foucault
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