Foucault, Descartes and the search for truth as a way of life

In the genealogy of self-care, Foucault states that Cartesian philosophy deals this tradition the final blow that condemns it to oblivion. Since then, the subject no longer has to practice any transformation of his being as a subject in order to access the truth; the correct use of his cognitive faculties is enough. This article argues that in Descartes the question of care is not forgotten, but that precisely the enterprise of recons-tructing the building of knowledge for the search for truth is approached as the fruit of a moral decision about the way of life.