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" The therapy of desire : "
Martha C. Nussbaum.
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BL
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632160
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Nussbaum, Martha Craven,1947-
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The therapy of desire : : theory and practice in Hellenistic ethics /\ Martha C. Nussbaum.
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, 1996, c1994.
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Martin classical lectures ;; new ser., v. 2
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xiv, 558 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0691000522
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: 9780691000527
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: 0691033420
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: 9780691033426
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-530) and indexes.
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1. Therapeutic arguments -- 2. Medical dialectic : Aristotle on theory and practice -- 3. Aristotle on emotions and ethical health -- 4. Epicurean surgery : argument and empty desire -- 5. Beyond obsession and disgust : Lucretius on the therapy of love -- 6. Mortal immortals : Lucretius on death and the voice of nature -- 7. "By words, not arms" : Lucretius on anger and aggression -- 8. Skeptic purgatives : disturbance and the life without belief -- 9. Stoic tonics : philosophy and the self-government of the soul -- 10. The Stoics on the extirpation of the passions -- 11. Seneca on anger in public life -- 12. Serpents in the soul : a reading of Seneca's Medea -- 13. The therapy of desire.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Emotions (Philosophy)-- History.
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Ethics, Ancient.
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