Taken from the text: “Seduction is not a passive form of incitement.” M. Foucault, History of Sexuality, pp. 95-6 Toward the end of his third volume on the History of Sexuality, where upon he expressly links the “art of living”with the care of oneself, Foucault invites us to think through the moral and ethical implications of such a connection. It is a troubled connection, indeed, a dangerous path, and we are forewarned of the trouble ahead. “...[A]s the arts of living and the care of the self are refined,” says Foucault, “some precepts emerge that seem to be rather similar to those that will be formulated in the later moral systems. But one should not be misled by the analogy. Those moral systems will define other modalities of the relation to self: a characterization of the ethical substance based on finitude, the Fall, and evil; a mode of subjection in the form of obedience to a general law that is at the same time the will for a personal god; [...] a mode of ethical fulfilment that tends toward self-re-nunciation. (Foucault, 1988: 239-40).