The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics"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. |
Contents
Therapeutic Arguments | 13 |
Medical Dialectic Aristotle on Theory and Practice | 48 |
Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health | 78 |
Epicurean Surgery Argument and Empty Desire | 102 |
Beyond Obsession and Disgust Lucretius on the Therapy of Love | 140 |
Mortal Immortals Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature | 192 |
By Words Not Arms Lucretius on Anger and Aggression | 239 |
Skeptic Purgatives Disturbance and the Life without Belief | 280 |
The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions | 359 |
Seneca on Anger in Public Life | 402 |
Serpents in the Soul A Reading of Senecas Medea | 439 |
The Therapy of Desire | 484 |
List of Philosophers and Schools | 511 |
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Other editions - View all
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics Martha C. Nussbaum Limited preview - 2013 |
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics Martha C. Nussbaum Limited preview - 2009 |
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics Martha Craven Nussbaum No preview available - 1996 |
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