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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
The Therapy of Desire Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
Author: 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: 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 produci...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691141312
ISBN-10: 0691141312
Publication Date: 7/6/2009
Pages: 600
Edition: Third Edition
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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