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This thinker recounted how his wife argued marriage was “fatal to a philosopher” since Socrates “quitted life with joy because by that means he left Xanthippe.” This philosopher’s teacher claimed that sex in Eden was like “putting your finger in your mouth,” prompting this man’s response that a monk who is chained up and forced to sleep with two women will experience pleasure without sinning. This philosopher developed an intentionalist theory according to which actions themselves are all morally neutral in Ethics, or Know Thyself. (15[1])In a letter to (*) Philintus, this philosopher recounted a woman’s argument that it’s better to be a mistress than a wife; that woman addressed 42 questions about scripture to this (10[1])man while living at the Paraclete. This philosopher described the birth of Astrolabe in the letter Historia Calamitatum. For 10 points, name this Scholastic author of Sic et Non (10[1])and husband of Héloïse. ■END■

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