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