In his book Discipline and Punish, Foucault discusses the nature of modern power and its ramifications in our world today. Michel views that power operates quite differently in disciplinary system which creates institutions and identities. Another position that he took is that justice and law tend to serve the interests of c

It is for a person to constantly practice a moral conduct, continue to exercise oneself because there is no finality of conditions that can be found in society. If one can find one¡¦s design of actions, the individual can apply it in a manner which one sees at its finest. Pay not so much attention to rules and codes, for in reality, it is ourselves who set limits within our self through askesis that we behave in a manner that is appropriate.

Two forms of technology of extracting truth in sexuality are presented here namely: ¡§ars erotica¡¨ and ¡§scientia sexualis¡¨. The difference between these two is of prescription and practice. Ars erotica, ¡§truth is drawn from pleasure itself, understood as a practice and accumulated as experience.¡¨ Truth is pulled out by the very experience of pleasure itself and all of its magnitude of effects to a person both within the body and the soul. In the ars erotica, there is a reprocity that can be found between the master and his subject. ¡§the relationship to the master who holds the secrets is of a paramount importance; only he, working alone, can transmit this art in an esoteric manner and as the culmination of an initiation in which he guides the disciple¡¦s progress with unfailing skill and severity.¡¨ We again find the process of confession being demonstrated here just like in a pastoral procedure in which the presence of an authoritarian figure is seen as the attentive listener. Truth and sex are coupled together because of an expression of their sexual peculiarity, ¡§it is in the confession that truth and sex are joined, through the obligatory and exhaustive expression of an individual secret.¡¨

Askesis helps the person to look at the law as he reflected it upon. It also makes the person to become of a character, to fit his role as a person in the society, to make moral actions. In marriage, for example, the husband must look into himself as to what things he should or should not do. There are certain or particular things that a husband would act upon to fulfill his role as a husband, „³7)¡¨the fact that the dominion of oneself over oneself is increasingly manifested in the practice of obligations with regard to others and above all in showing a certain respect for one¡¦s wife. The intensification of the concern for the self goes hand in hand with valorization of the other.¡¨ If I truly love my wife, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way to contribute the utmost to her growth. It is not only in marriage that one can build his or her character. Askesis develops the individual into a person in whom it can decipher signs and laws. For the subject of law is such an enormous task to comprehend, one has to form one¡¦s self into looking at the law in a way that what we have deciphered is only applicable to a certain extent. In addition to this there arise differences, ¡§with the way in which the individual establishes his relation to the rule and recognizes himself as obliged to put it into practice.¡¨ In effect, the verdict and demonstration of the law varies from person to person. Askesis then is a transfer of one¡¦s knowledge to one¡¦s action.

In this book, Michel Foucault focuses on the subject of sexuality of the human person as a channel of power relation. He describes an onset of situations wherein the use of sexuality could demonstrate a degree of control over one¡¦s behavior, ¡§¡Kthe multiplication of discourses concerning sex in the field of exercise of power itself: an institutional incitement to speak about it, and to do so more and more; a determination on the part of the agencies of power to hear it spoken about¡K¡¨ Moreover, it is in the transformation of sexuality into some economic agenda that governmentality exercises its control and in addition, that each individual is an agent of power. Another point is that there is a generalized notion that there is a truth of sexuality which constitutes our

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