The article discusses the objections taken to Foucault's ideas about the subject's ethics which would lead to an absence of compromise with universal values and principles of the liberal democracies. Discussing Taylor's, Hochlitz's, Hadot's and Rorty's propositions Foucault's answer would be formulated based on a radical change in the subject's image and in the ways of building up relations which, in case of sexuality, as the categories are re-defined, would question the actual moral hierarchy of sexual practices with its fixed domination and subjection relationships.
Foucault; subject; aesthetics of existence; sexual practices and roles; homosexualism; sado-masochism