The Therapy of Desire Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics |
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| Author:
| Nussbaum, Martha C. |
| Introduction by:
| Nussbaum, Martha C. |
| Series title: | Princeton Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-18102-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2018 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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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. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tr
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. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tr