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 science aimed both at understanding and at producing the flourishing of human life. In this engaging book, Martha Nussbaum examines texts of philosophers committed to a therapeutic paradigm--including Epicurus, Lucretius, Sextus Empiricus, Chrysippus, and Seneca--and recovers a valuable source for our moral and political thought of today.
- ISBN10 0691000522
- ISBN13 9780691000527
- Publish Date 7 March 1996 (first published 22 May 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 27 May 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 576
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5420.html