The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics : with a new introduction by the author / Martha C. Nussbaum.
2009
170.938 N975t 2009
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Title
The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics : with a new introduction by the author / Martha C. Nussbaum.
Edition
2009 ed.
ISBN
9780691141312 (pbk.)
0691141312 (pbk.)
0691141312 (pbk.)
Imprint
Woodstock ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 558 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
170.938 N975t 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)305160767
(OCoLC)305160767
(OCoLC)305160767
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.
Note
Previous ed.: 1994.
Partly based on the Martin Classical Lectures for 1986.
Partly based on the Martin Classical Lectures for 1986.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-530) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Series
Martin classical lectures.
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