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The kata phusin character of marriage. ~ Xenophon’s Oeconomicus: study of the speech of Ischomachus to his young wife. ~ The classical ends of marriage. ~ The naturalness of marriage according to Musonius Rufus. ~ The desire for community. ~ The couple or the herd: the two modes of social being according to Hierocles. ~ The relationship to the spouse or the friend in Aristotle: differential intensities. ~ The form of the conjugal bond: organic unity.
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John Chrysostom, Homélies sur le mariage in Œuvres complètes, vol. IV, Homélies (Bar-le-Duc: L. Guérin & Cie éditeurs, 1864).
Xenophon, Économique, VII, 5, ed. and trans., Pierre Chantraine (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, CUF, 1949) p. 59; English translation E. C. Marchant, “The Oeconomicus,” in Xenophon, IV: Memorabilia and Oeconomicus, Symposium and Apology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library, 168, 1923) p. 415.
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Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (2017). 11 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_6
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