Edition |
2009 ed. |
Description |
xxvi, 558 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Martin classical lectures.
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Note |
Previous ed.: 1994. |
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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.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Emotions (Philosophy) -- History.
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ISBN |
9780691141312 (pbk.) |
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0691141312 (pbk.) |
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