The therapy of desire : Theory and practice in hellenistic ethics /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Principal: Nussbaum, Martha C.
Formato: Libro
Lengua:inglés
Datos de publicación: Princeton : Princeton University, 1996.
Series:Martin classical lectures. New Series ; 2
Temas:
Descripción Física:xiv, 558 p.
ISBN:0691000522
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Therapeutic arguments
  • Medical dialectic : Aristotle on theory and practice
  • Aristotle on emotions and ethical health
  • Epicurean surgery : Argument and empty desire
  • Beyond obsession and disgust : Lucretius on the therapy of love
  • Mortal immortals : Lucretius on death and the voice of nature
  • By worths, not arms : Lucretius on anger and aggression
  • Skeptic purgatives : Disturbance and the life without belief
  • Stoic tonics : Philosophy and the self-government of the soul
  • The stoics on the extirpation of the passions
  • Seneca on anger in public life
  • Serpents in the soul : A reading of Seneca's Medea
  • The therapy of desire