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
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:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Philosophy, Ancient.
Ethics, Ancient.
Emotions (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Morale ancienne.
Émotions (Philosophie) > Histoire.
Philosophie ancienne.
Emotions (Philosophy) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 o.
Notas:Previous edition: 1994.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (584 pages).
ISBN:9781400831944

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