The Therapy of Desire Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Princeton Classics
Author:
Martha C. Nussbaum
ISBN:
9781400831944
Related ISBNs:
9780691000527, 9780691000527, 9780691033426, 9780691033426, 9780691181028, 9780691181028, 9780691141312, 9780691141312
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Pages:
584
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-03-15
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2009
Copyright by:
Princeton University Press 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction, Philosophy