The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

by Martha C. Nussbaum

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691033420
• ISBN13: 9780691033426
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.8" x 10.0"