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The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics

By Nussbaum , Martha Craven

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0691141312, 978-0-691-14131-2, 9781400831944, 1400831946, 0-691-03342-0
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2384106 bytes)
Series
Martin classical lectures
Edition
New ed
Pages
558\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Ancient. Emotions (Philosophy) -- History. EthicsAncient. PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.Philosophy

Description

The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought today. This edition features a new introduction by Nussbaum, in which she revisits the themes of this now classic work.

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