Abstract: According to Foucault, Descartes ultimately confirmed the prevalence of the Delphic injunction “know thyself” (gnôthi seauton) over a precept which had previously ruled supreme: the “care of the self” (epimeleia heautou). This does not imply that philosophy cannot renew with its former status when the Self played a prevalent part. This article argues in favor of a philosophy in which the Self would invent itself through a reciprocal harmony between logos (discourses) and ergon (actions).
