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The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics
- Title
- The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics / Martha C. Nussbaum.
- Author
- Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1994.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- xiv, 558 pages; 25 cm.
- 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 engagingly written book, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. By examining texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm - including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca - she recovers a valuable source for current moral and political thought and encourages us to reconsider philosophical argument as a technique through which to improve lives. In describing the contributions of Hellenistic ethics, Nussbaum focuses on each thinker's treatment of the question of emotion. All argued that many harmful emotions are based on false beliefs that are socially taught, and that good philosophical argument can transform emotions, and, with them, both private and public life. Written for general readers and specialists, this book addresses compelling issues ranging from the psychology of human passion through rhetoric to the role of philosophy in public and private life.
- Series Statement
- Martin classical lectures ; new series, volume 2
- Uniform Title
- Martin classical lectures ; new ser., v. 2.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-530) and indexes.
- Contents
- Therapeutic Arguments -- Medical Dialectic : Aristotle on Theory and Practice -- Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health -- Epicurean Surgery : Argument and Empty Desire -- Beyond Obsession and Disgust : Lucretius on the Therapy of Love -- Mortal Immortals : Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature -- "By Words, Not Arms": Lucretius on Anger and Aggression -- Stoic Tonics : Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul -- Skeptic Purgatives : Disturbance and the Life without Belief -- The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions -- Seneca on Anger in Public Life -- Serpents in the Soul : A Reading of Seneca's Medea -- The Therapy of Desire.
- Call Number
- JFE 94-9144
- ISBN
- 0691033420
- 9780691033426
- 0693033420 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 93006417
- OCLC
- 28724422
- Author
- Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
- Title
- The therapy of desire : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics / Martha C. Nussbaum.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1994.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Martin classical lectures ; new series, volume 2Martin classical lectures ; new ser., v. 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-530) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Ethics HistoryGreece
- Research Call Number
- JFE 94-9144*R-RMRR B505 .N87 1994