What do these two quotes mean in simple words? How do these Foucault quotes below fit with ethical thinking in your real life? How does the position of the subjective self connect to the objective?  Is ethics only a recognition of others over the interests of the self? 

 

Quote 1: It is by liberating our desire that we will learn to conduct ourselves ethically in pleasure relationships with others.
For what is ethics, if not the practice of freedom, the conscious [réfléchie] practice of freedom?
Freedom is the ontological condition of ethics.  But ethics is the considered form that freedom takes when it is informed by reflection.
 

Quote 2: You have become the logos, or the logos has become you. Freedom is thus inherently political.

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In simple words the first quote by Foucault is saying that when we free and understand our desires we learn to interact with others in a way that alig... View the full answer