num_pages: 576
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Therapy of Desire
titlecomplete: The Therapy of Desire
genres: Classics, Skepticism, History, Philosophy, Ancient History, Psychology, Greece, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 231
publisher: Princeton University Press