Description
Product ID: | 9780691181028 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Princeton Classics |
Title: | The Therapy of Desire |
Subtitle: | Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics |
Authors: | Author: Martha C. Nussbaum |
Page Count: | 584 |
Subjects: | Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ancient Greece |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-05-22 |