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Author Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-

Title The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics : with a new introduction by the author / Martha C. Nussbaum.

Imprint Woodstock ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.

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Edition 2009 ed.
Description xxvi, 558 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Martin classical lectures.
Note Previous ed.: 1994.
Partly based on the Martin Classical Lectures for 1986.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-530) and indexes.
Contents Introduction to the 2009 edition -- Therapeutic arguments -- Medical dialectic : Aristotle on theory and practice -- Aristotle on emotions and ethical health -- Epicurean surgery : argument and empty desire -- Beyond obsession and disgust : Lucretius and the therapy of love -- Mortal immortals : Lucretius on death and the voice of nature -- "By words, not arms" : Lucretius on anger and aggression -- Skeptic purgatives : purgatives and the life without belief -- Stoic tonics : philosophy and the self-government of the soul -- The Stoics on the extirpation of the passions -- Seneca on anger in public life -- Serpents in the soul : a reading of Seneca's Medea -- The therapy of desire.
Summary "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. 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."--Google Books.
Subject Ethics, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Emotions (Philosophy) -- History.
ISBN 9780691141312 (pbk.)
0691141312 (pbk.)

 
    
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