The second form of ethical discipline is less interested in
transgression and reform and more interested in managing the
body to produce health. Foucault calls this way of thinking
about ethics "dietetic" instead of "juridical," and he finds
this to be the dominant way of thinking about sexuality for the
Greeks. It conceives of the work of ethics as a project of
integrating the various aspects of the self into a flourishing
whole. The example that Foucault treats is sexuality. A dietetic
approach to sexual pleasure would take the problem of sexuality
as one of how to integrate this pleasure within the rest of the
activities of life. A juridical approach to sexual pleasure
would take the problem of sexual ethics to be a question of how
to diagnose deviant forms of pleasure and reform them according
to a transcendental sexual norm. |Obviously, important
philosophical issues are at stake.| Foucault finds resources in
the Greek dietetic approach to sexuality for rethinking his own
relationship to sexual pleasure,