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Process of valorization and illusion of the code. ~ Experience of the flesh and codification. ~ The philosophers’ new sexual ethics: hyper-valorization of marriage and devalorization of pleasure. ~ Comparative advantages and disadvantages of marriage. ~ Should a philosopher marry? ~ The negative answer of the Cynics and Epicureans. ~ The duty of marriage in the Stoics. ~ The exception of marriage for the philosopher in the present catastasis, according to Epictetus.
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Libanius, “Ei gameteon,” in Progymnasmata/Libanius’ Progymnasmata: Model Exercises in Greek Prose Composition and Rhetoric, trans., Craig A. Gibson (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008) pp. 511–519.
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Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (2017). 4 February 1981. In: Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (eds) Subjectivity and Truth. Michel Foucault. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73900-4_5
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