The Therapy of Desire : : Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics / / Martha C. Nussbaum.

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• VerfasserIn: Nussbaum, Martha C.,
• MitwirkendeR: Nussbaum, Martha C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: With a New introduction by the author
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Classics ; 98
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (584 p.)

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. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. By examining texts of philosophers such as Epicurus, Lucretius, and Seneca, she recovers a valuable source for current moral and political thought and encourages us to reconsider philosophical argument as a technique through which to improve lives. Written for general readers and specialists, The Therapy of Desire addresses compelling issues ranging from the psychology of human passion through rhetoric to the role of philosophy in public and private life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction to the 2009 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Therapeutic Arguments -- CHAPTER 2. Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice -- CHAPTER 3. Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health -- CHAPTER 4.Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire -- CHAPTER 5. Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love -- CHAPTER 6. Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature -- CHAPTER 7. “By Words, Not Arms”: Lucretius on Anger and Aggression -- CHAPTER 8. Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief -- CHAPTER 9. Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul -- CHAPTER 10. The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions -- CHAPTER 11. Seneca on Anger in Public Life -- CHAPTER 12. Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca’s Medea -- CHAPTER 13. The Therapy of Desire -- Philosophers and Schools -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index