The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics /

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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 sci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Edición:New ed. /
Colección:Martin classical lectures.
Temas:
Philosophy, Ancient.
Emotions (Philosophy) > History.
Ethics, Ancient.
Philosophie ancienne.
Émotions (Philosophie) > Histoire.
Morale ancienne.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Emotions (Philosophy)
Ethics, Ancient
Philosophy, Ancient
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the 2009 Edition
  • Introduction
  • 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 on 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: Disturbance 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.

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