Therapy of Desire Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

Name: Therapy of Desire Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
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ISBN: 9780691000527

ISBN-10: 0691000522

ISBN-13: 9780691000527

Edition: 1994

Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum

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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 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.

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/7/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


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


List of Philosophers and Schools


Bibliography


Index Locorum


General Index