Palacio Gómez, Carlos Alberto2018-08-082018-08-082017Revista EN–Clave Social Vol. 6 N. 22256-3911http://hdl.handle.net/10567/1975This essay presents some brief notes on some passages of the work “The Hermeneutics of the Subject” written by Michel Foucault from a dialogical perspective on the human being. This perspective allows proposing some developments to the work of the French thinker. In particular, a fleeting allusion of Foucault to the deep historicalcultural roots of restlessness and self-care is approached and proposed as one of the matristic cultures, constantly denied and undervalued by the chronology of many humanist approaches. Secondly, in relation to the discourse that Socrates develops in Plato’s Banquet and which constitutes a mandatory reference to the concern of the self in antiquity, a specific response to the question is proposed, supported by a text by David Halperin: “ Why is Diótima a woman? “ Then, a comment made by Foucault about the existence of a tradition that produces a great resistance, a great opposition against the restlessness and care of itself and its origin is proposed. Finally, it is specified that the notion of Socrates’soul is dialogical: transcendently immortal and immanently subject of the action.esCorporación Universitaria LasallistaFacultad de Ciencias Sociales y EducaciónHermenéutica filosóficaPerspectiva dialógicaHumanismoCondición humanaArticle