Libertad e interioridad agustiniana: aportes para pensar la diferencia entre liberación y prácticas de libertad en Michel Foucault

Abstract

The following work, in the first place, seeks through an analysis of freedom in San Agustín, to visualize how the Augustinian libertas implies the gestation of an authentic human interiority. This becomes a key element to understand the philosophical problem of freedom from the perspective of liberation. Secondly, the Foucauldian difference between liberation and freedom practices is raised, where the argument of the French philosopher is reconstructed. The confession presented as a technique of itself, in addition to allowing us to identify the aforementioned differences, allows us to trace a government logic that has among its tasks, conducting behaviors of a subject who yearns for liberation.  In contrast to the latter, Foucauldian freedom is posed in terms of freedom practices, where new (heterotopic) spaces are opened to constitute other possible ways, through which the subject governs himself and others.