The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics
Nussbaum, Martha CravenThe 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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Anno:
2009
Edizione:
New ed
Casa editrice:
Princeton University Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
558
ISBN 10:
1400831946
ISBN 13:
9781400831944
Collana:
Martin classical lectures
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EPUB, 2.27 MB
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english, 2009