The therapy of desire - Martha Nussbaum
theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics
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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, Lucr...
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1994 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 558 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691033420 ISBN-13: 9780691033426Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994. XIV,558p. Original green cloth with pictorial dust wrappers. Spine gilt titled. Spine bumped. Dust wrappers not affected. Else fine. 'Hellenistic philosophy, we learn from Nussbaum's lengthy programmatic intro...