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    Self-realization: from authenticity to "aesthetics of existence"
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2022) Ceyhan, Merve; Keskin, Ferda
    ABSTRACT: The starting point of this study is how the concept of self-realization is approached in today's world. As it seems, the discourse of self-realization in the age that we can call the late modern period is predominantly produced by the culture of self-help. As found here, the concept of self-realization treats people as isolated, atomic individuals in connection with others. Therefore, today, this concept is not treated within ethical and political context. In addition, the concept of authenticity is in close contact with the culture of self-help that produces late modern interpretations of self-realization. The ideal of authenticity, developed around the motto of 'be yourself', includes processes such as 'discovering your true self' and adapting this truth to the rest of your self. In this study, the separation of the self into ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ realms is traced in the history of philosophy: since when has human been talking about herself? The next part of the study focuses on the concept of authenticity and examines what kind of self-realization approach this concept proposes through the understanding of authenticity of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Charles Taylor and Jean Paul Sartre. The last part of the work is devoted to the philosophy of Michel Foucault. Can a model that can be created as an alternative to the understanding of self-realization suggested by the self-development culture deduced from Foucault's writings? The relations that the Greeks established with themselves within the framework of the rule of ‘taking care of oneself’, and the ‘ascetic’ practices they carried out regarding the use of pleasures, which Foucault conveyed to us on the ancient Greek ethics he was working on in his last period, are of a quality that will appeal to today's ‘self-occupied’ people. These ethical studies, which Foucault called the ‘aesthetics of existence’, also promised freedom to the ‘subject’. Therefore, the ‘aesthetics of existence’ can offer a kind of exit door to the idea and practice of self-realization, which has lost its ethical and political aspects today.