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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Martin Classical Lectures)
by Martha C Nussbaum
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ISBN13: 9780691000527 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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.
Review:
Nussbaum adventurously straddles boundaries conventionally drawn between philosophy and its own history, between philosophy and literature, and between scholarship and the social sciences.... Few modern books have done as much as this one promises to do in raising the profile of Hellenistic philosophy. It is constantly gripping and absorbing, written with rare eloquence and containing long stretches of almost lyrical intensity. A literary as well as a philosophical
Review:
Nussbaum writes as an advocate [of the Hellenistic philosophers], though not an uncritical one, for even while she admires the seriousness and subtlety with which these philosophers analyze the passions, she allows that there is an unresolvable conflict between the detachment and the intense engagement entailed by their philosophies. The sense that these philosophers still matter, that we can wrangle with them and learn from them, is invigorating.
Synopsis:
'Nussbaum adventurously straddles boundaries conventionally drawn between philosophy and its own history, between philosophy and literature, and between scholarship and the social sciences...Few modern books have done as much as this one promises to do in raising the profile of Hellenistic philosophy.
Description:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-530) and indexes.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| List of Abbreviations | ||
| Introduction | 3 | |
| Ch. 1 | Therapeutic Arguments | 13 |
| Ch. 2 | Medical Dialectic: Aristotle on Theory and Practice | 48 |
| Ch. 3 | Aristotle on Emotions and Ethical Health | 78 |
| Ch. 4 | Epicurean Surgery: Argument and Empty Desire | 102 |
| Ch. 5 | Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of Love | 140 |
| Ch. 6 | Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature | 192 |
| Ch. 7 | "By Words, Not Arms": Lucretius on Anger and Aggression | 239 |
| Ch. 8 | Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without Belief | 280 |
| Ch. 9 | Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the Soul | 316 |
| Ch. 10 | The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions | 359 |
| Ch. 11 | Seneca on Anger in Public Life | 402 |
| Ch. 12 | Serpents in the Soul: A Reading of Seneca's Medea | 439 |
| Ch. 13 | The Therapy of Desire | 484 |
| List of Philosophers and Schools | 511 | |
| Bibliography | 517 | |
| Index Locorum | 531 | |
| General Index | 550 |
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780691000527
- Subtitle:
- Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Libri
- Location:
- Princeton, N.J. :
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Subject:
- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Subject:
- Ancient
- Subject:
- Philosophy, ancient
- Subject:
- Ethics and logic
- Subject:
- Emotions
- Subject:
- Ethics, greek
- Subject:
- Ethics, ancient
- Subject:
- Emotions (Philosophy) -- History.
- Subject:
- History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical
- Subject:
- Classics
- Copyright:
- 1996
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series:
- Martin Classical Lectures
- Series Volume:
- TM 11-5840-281-35/1
- Publication Date:
- February 1996
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- College/higher education:
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 572
- Dimensions:
- 9 x 6 in 28 oz
