| Description |
xiv, 558 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Martin classical lectures ; new series, volume 2 |
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Martin classical lectures ; new series, volume 2
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics / Martha C. Nussbaum. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 3 Ch. 1 Therapeutic Arguments 13 Ch. 2 Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice 48 Ch. 3 Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health 78 Ch. 4 Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire 102 Ch. 5 Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love 140 Ch. 6 Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature 192 Ch. 7 "By Words, Not Arms": Lucretius on Anger and Aggression 239 Ch. 8 Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief 280 Ch. 9 Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul 316 Ch. 10 The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions 359 Ch. 11 Seneca on Anger in Public Life 402 Ch. 12 Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea 439 Ch. 13 The Therapy of Desire 484 List of Philosophers and Schools 511 Bibliography 517 Index Locorum 531 General Index 550 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Philosophy, Ancient, Emotions (Philosophy) History, Ethics, Ancient |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Ethics History |
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Greece |
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Emotions (Philosophy) - History |
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Ethics History |
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Greece |
| Notes |
Partly based on the Martin Classical Lectures for 1986 |
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Previous ed.: 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-530) and indexes |
| Notes |
Martin classical lectures no:ew ser., v. 2 0076-471X |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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Epicurus.
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Lucretius Carus, Titus.
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Emotions (Philosophy) -- History.
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Ethics, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Skepticism.
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Stoics.
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Ethics.
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| Author |
Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
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| LC no. |
93006417 |
| ISBN |
0691000522 (paperback) |
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0691033420 |
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