You are a little soul, carrying a corpse
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| + | "[[You are a little soul, carrying a corpse]]" is a dictum by [[Epictetus]] | ||
| - | The philosophical view of the body as a corpse that carries around the soul ("[[You are a little soul, carrying a corpse]]", [[Epictetus]]) could result in outright contempt for sexuality: "as for sexual intercourse," the emperor and Stoic philosopher [[Marcus Aurelius]] writes, "it is the friction of a piece of gut and, following a sort of convulsion, the expulsion of some mucus." Seneca rails "at great length" against the perversity of one Hostius Quadra, who surrounded himself with the equivalent of [[curved mirror|funhouse mirrors]] so he could view [[sex party|sex parties]] from distorted angles and penises would look bigger. | + | It represents the philosophical view of the body as a corpse that carries around the [[soul]]. |
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"You are a little soul, carrying a corpse" is a dictum by Epictetus
It represents the philosophical view of the body as a corpse that carries around the soul.
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