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: 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000522
• ISBN13: 9780691000527
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"