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The Therapy of Desire Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics

Martha C. Nussbaum

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 sci...

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The Daily Stoic

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The Daily Stoic

This book by Martha Nussbaum was mentioned for exploring the compatibility of living a life full of passion, love, and desire with Stoicism.

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Martha Nassbaum is an extraordinary philosopher... but she wrote a wonderful book called The Therapy of Desire which looks you know there's a a case study a kind of fictional case study of a young wom...

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This book by Martha Nussbaum was mentioned for exploring the compatibility of living a life full of passion, love, and desire with Stoicism.

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Martha Nassbaum is an extraordinary philosopher... but she wrote a wonderful book called The Therapy of Desire which looks you know there's a a case study a kind of fictional case study of a young woman in stoic times who is learning stoicism.

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