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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Main Author: Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Edition:New ed. /
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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 o.
Item Description:Previous edition: 1994.
Physical Description:1 online resource (584 pages).
ISBN:9781400831944

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