The Therapy of Desire

Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

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ID20081653
AuthorsMartha C Nussbaum (corresponding author), Martha Nussbaum
Year2016
Pages339-345
Publication date2016-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEssays and Reviews (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400848393-066
OpenAlexW3195221346
ISBN9781400848393
LanguageEN
Citations received40

"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

Epistemology · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Philosophy · Psychology

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