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Dossier: «40 anos de A hermenêutica do sujeito»

No. 19 (2025): La cuestión antropológica

Desire for truth and truth of desire: dissident Socrates

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18076120
Submitted
December 29, 2025
Published
2025-12-29

Abstract

Would the practice of philosophy be that opportunity in which our way of life becomes an object of dispute? What is this activity that modifies the body previously involved in a movement in front of which he recognized himself as a mere spectator? Even more: would the truth itself be a certain «experience» of vision displacement that allows me to discover that my way of life is subject to conversion? The fact that Socrates asserts that he knows nothing reveals something about the nature of knowledge: what matters is the effects that truth causes in the way we live. The truth is not in the words: Socratism has perhaps less to do with the desire for truth than with the truth of desire.

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