The Therapy of Desire

Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

By:

Martha C. Nussbaum

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Princeton Classics

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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

Author Biography:

Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the Law School and in the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton).

Release date Australia

May 22nd, 2018

Author

Martha C. Nussbaum

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Introduction by Martha C Nussbaum

Edition

Revised edition

Pages

584

Series

Princeton Classics

ISBN-13

9780691181028

Product ID

27290320

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