About this title: The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed at both understanding and producing the flourishing of human life. Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts. By examining texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus ...
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Description: Good. Creases to binding-some staining to page edge-minor wear to cover-minor pencil underlining-otherwise binding strong contents fine-enjoy. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780691033426ISBN:0691033420
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-07-26
ISBN-13:9780691141312ISBN:0691141312
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780691033426ISBN:0691033420
Description: Hardcover. 24 cm. 558 pp. List of Philosophers and Schools. Bibliography. Index locorum. General index. ISBN: 0691033420 Near Mint in like dustjacket. 1. Philosophy, Ancient 2. Emotions (Philosophy)-History 3. Ethics, Ancient. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ. PRESSES OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA AND PRINCETON Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780691141312ISBN:0691141312
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 600 pages. Examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm-including epicurus, lucretius, sextus empiricus, chrysippus, and seneca-and recovers a source for our moral and political thought. (Paperback) read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ. PRESSES OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA AND PRINCETON Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780691000527ISBN:0691000522
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 576 pages. (572 pages) this work examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm, such as epicurus, lucretius, sextus empiricus, chrysippus and seneca. it shows that such philosophers practised philosophy as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691033426ISBN:0691033420
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780691000527ISBN:0691000522
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780691141312ISBN:0691141312
Description: New. Examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm-including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca-and recovers a source for our moral and political thought. read more
"This is a book I started several years ago and have only now gotten around to finishing. If you can ever really be finished with a book like this. A description of the work of the greatest Hellenistic moral philosophers--Epicurus, Seneca, Cicero, Epictetus--that doesn't just summarize their influence on each other and describe their historical significance, but actually engages them, struggles with them, and tries to show in what ways they were right and in what ways wrong. I am not a philosopher, or even somebody whose mind works that way; but Nussbaum manages to pull me along in her complex analyses and keep me fascinated. She has the rare gift of making you eager to read the originals. Right now is a very appropriate time to be reading moral philosophy--to try to understand why some actions are right and others wrong. Books like this should be required reading in MBA programs. I was inspired by this one when I had time to kill in a bookstore a week ago and found a newer work of hers--Upheavals of Thought--and after browsing the index and then turning to her section on Dante, I was so impressed that I decided to buy it. It's next on my list. Her few pages on the famous central scene in the Divine Comedy--where Dante finally meets Beatrice--are amazing. Possibly the best I've ever read on that passage."
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