My Views And Enlightenments Of Foucault’s Concept Of Knowledge-life

Two fundamental traditions of western culture, which create lots of knowledgeable and cultural views of returning the self to know and cultivate the self and life, are that "Know yourself and"Change the value of the currency". That is to say, the relations of knowledge and life have been the ultimate theme of the two fundamental traditions.Nietzsche and Foucault have inherit-ed and developed the relations of knowledge and life, especially, Foucault’s inheritances and developments of its from the perspective of "Change the value of the currency".As for the relations of knowledge and life, Nietzsche concludes a profound assertion that life should govern knowledge. In other words, Nietzsche gets it from the perspective of the will to power or the strength, expansion, freedom of life, what’s more, it also bases on yearning for harmonious state of knowledge and life in ancient Greece and criticism on conditions of modern society since modern era which knowledge has governed life. Moreover, Foucault has developed this assertion, and has placed "the will to power"of Nietzsche in the ontological and generative meanings of knowledge and life, then which generates ethics of the self or a practice of freedom. Foucault regards the ethics of the self as aesthetics of existence. In order to reveal the knowledgeable conditions of "death of the subject" or "end of man" and return the state of the practice of freedom or art, the archaeology of knowledge on games of truth to lead to justice of knowledge generates ways to structure aesthetics of existence leading to justice of virtue, then which reaches the purpose that life governs knowledge.In this sense, the sage of Foucault’s writings is an artist whose mission is to cultivate creative practices of freedom, meanwhile, the self and life are seen as works of art. Thus, society and life must be defended, which is the great interest and divine mission of knowledge.