The Therapy of Desire

Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

Auteur Martha C. Nussbaum

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ISBN

9780691000527

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Martha C. Nussbaum

Uitgeverij

Princeton University Press

Jaar van uitgifte

1996

Aantal pagina's

576

Waar gaat het over?

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 of today.

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